~ It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ~
~ Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. ~
~ When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ~
~ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~
~ Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~
~ Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. ~
~ Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. ~
~ We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ~
~ What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? ~
~ A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ~
~ [O]f all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. ~
~ When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes. ~