Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
— Mark Twain
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
— Oscar Wilde
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
— Mark Twain