If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.

Ogden Nash
About This Quote

Living in a society where there is no unemployment and everyone with a job is able to live comfortably, we find it hard to accept the idea of only working to earn money for not working. If you cannot work, then you must work to earn money so that you do not have to work. This quote is most probably an indication of the problem we face in our society today. We are so used to having everything we want at our fingertips that we forget about the value of hard work and self-reliance.

Source: Hard Lines

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