"The jour printer with gray head and..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.
More by Walt Whitman
“There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
“Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.”
More on Work
“A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.”
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
“You not only do you appreciate the sacrifices people have made and the hours they've kept and the soccer games they missed and the birthday parties, but I also had a lot of young people who came in here [to White House], and this probably, you know, echoes with you, in your own experience, you were young when you got here.”
More on Labor
“I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.”
“A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.”
“The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.”