Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

John Steinbeck, America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction Quotes: I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.
         

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.


John Steinbeck, America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
Check all other quotes by John Steinbeck, America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.
         



Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"John Steinbeck, America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Fri. 26 Apr. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/I-ve-always-been-amused-by-the-68175>.





Check out



Other quotes you may like


The Power of the Pen is not in the color of ink it spills

The Power of the Pen is not in the color of ink it spills



What I understand now about survival is that something in you dies. You don't become a survivor intact. Survival's cost is always loss.

What I understand now about survival is that something in you dies. You don't become a survivor intact. Survival's cost is always loss.



Your employees' ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness.

Your employees' ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness.



Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.



I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.

I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.



Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.



It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.

It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.



I think Clint Eastwood is a well oiled machine. Everyone that works with him has the same reaction, "Can I stay with you?"

I think Clint Eastwood is a well oiled machine. Everyone that works with him has the same reaction, "Can I stay with you?"



There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.

There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.



A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.". Author of this quote is John Steinbeck, America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction. This quote is about intelligence, manual-labor, labor, desk-job, labor-activism,.