Some unemployment quotes and sayings which is very apt I guess at these recession times.
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.
~Harry S. Truman
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
~William Shakespeare
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
~Gerald Barzan
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
~Robert Farrar Capon
An “acceptable” level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
~Author Unknown
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
~William E. Barrett
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
~Mason Cooley
When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
~Paige Rense
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
~William Shakespeare
Now joblessness isn’t just for philosophy majors.
~Kent Brockman
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
~Cato the Elder
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
~Whitney Young, Jr.
Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
~ Orson Scott
When large numbers of men are unable to find work unemployment results
~Calvin Coolidge