Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I’m a vagabond and a tramp. I don’t want money badly enough to work for it. In my opinion it’s a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
From interview with Komal Nahta
Quote in a letter of Degas to Jean-Baptiste Faure, 14 March 1877
1876 - 1895
Online, written by Brad Paisley, Chris DuBois, and Kelley Lovelace.
Song lyrics, 5th Gear (2007)
“No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.”
On Nicolas Anelka, (July 1999) http://archive.is/20130109094446/markarbouine.tripod.com/quotes/quotes3.htm
14 April 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“One (martini) is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.”
Quoted in Time Magazine (New York, 15 August 1960) from an an interview with Glenna Syse of the Chicago Sun-Times
Letters and interviews
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
