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  • I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.

    Ambition   Sleep   Men  
    Thomas Jefferson, Saul Kussiel Padover (1956). “A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters”
  • When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

    George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26
  • Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

    Source: www.sandpointonline.com
  • Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

    Ana Monnar (2005). “Relax: New and Selected Poems”, p.112, Author House
  • In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

    Muse   Spite   Position  
    Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.61, Canongate Books
  • Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

    Sports   Thinking   Hair  
    'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64
  • I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.

    Jobs   Thinking   Doctors  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

    Easter   Sunday   Dark  
  • Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.

  • We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

    "What makes me proud to be an American" by Brian Kilmeade, www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2014.
  • I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

    Art   Acting   Actors  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

    Ungrateful   Mars   World  
    Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.33, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

    Pain   Ambition   Men  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.345
  • The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

  • Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

    Jobs   Thankless  
  • Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

    Care   Deeds   Said  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “KIDNAPPED (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.132, StoneHenge Classics
  • I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

  • When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  • How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [312]
  • Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

    Men   Folly   Meddling  
    Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.747, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

    Art   Mean   Ideas  
    "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 152), 1986.
  • Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

    "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.
  • When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  • Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.

    "Jenna Morasca and Ethan Zohn Share Their Story of Love, Survivor and Battling Cancer". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. May 10, 2011.
  • Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

    Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

    Way   Failing   Betray  
    "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012..
  • I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere.

    Hate   Writing   Mind  
    "No Tall Tales: An Interview With Yuriy Tarnawsky". Interview With David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
  • Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

    Dark   Blue   Views  
    Shel Silverstein, “Point Of View”
  • I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

    Dog   Silly   Sleep  
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