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Familiar Quotations

Tenancy – "Occupation"

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.–John Burroughs

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.–Truman Capote

Idleness and lack of occupation are the best things in the world to ruin the foolish.–Chrysostom

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.–Frank Moore Colby

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the naturals, the ones who somehow know how to teach.–Peter Drucker

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.–Mahatma Gandhi

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.–Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.–Orison Swett Marden

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.–Malcolm McLaren

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.–Henry Mencken

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Tenancy – "Occupation" 1
• Tenancy – "Tenure" 2
• Tenancy, as opposed to "Strong" 2
• Use in Literature 4
• Tenancy 4
• Tenancy – "House" 6
• Tenancy – "Occupation" 6
• Tenancy – "Tenure" 8
• Tenancy, as opposed to "Strong" 8
• Tenancy, as opposed to "Vacancies" 8
• Nonfiction Usage 9
• Journalism Usage 9
• Legal Usage 9
• Governmental Usage 11
• Bibliographic Usage 11
• Encyclopedic Usage 39
• Lexicographic Usage 41
• Index 49