"A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass." ― Pearl S. Buck Topic(s): Work More From Pearl S. Buck "We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave." "To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death." "The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool." More In Work "As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid."― Irvin S. Cobb "Work is making a living out of being bored."― Karl Lagerfeld