“Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink”
Rudyard Kipling
“A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees”
Benjamin Franklin
“The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"”
Will Rogers
“Never trust a man without vices...”
Winston Churchill
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need”
Voltaire
“Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work while she was on her honeymoon]”
Dorothy Parker