Jones Very Quotes

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

Man is born to eat.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living.

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

Uncivilized races, and the bravest and most energetic still more than the rest, are averse to continuous labor of an unexciting kind. Yet all real civilization is at this price; without such labor, neither can the mind be disciplined into the habits required by civilized society, nor the material world prepared to receive it.

Genuine wealth is created when work is undertaken not simply as a means of earning a livelihood but also as a way to contribute to society. We hold that meaningful work is a basic need of the human soul, as important to the proper development of the individual as nutritious food, clean water and fresh air are to the physical body.

If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Frightened is the natural state for all men.

What keeps me going is that this I all there is. I am a comedian, and this is what I do. It's like telling a fish to stop swimming. It'll die.

I eat to survive, you know?

If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.

Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway.