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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. -- Felix Adler
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! -- William Shakespeare
We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work. -- Brian Kilmeade
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. -- Thomas Jefferson
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. -- Francois Truffaut
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. -- George Orwell
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. -- Julius Erving
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
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
Being a good embalmer is a thankless job. -- Matt Groening
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work. -- Rudyard Kipling
Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! -- Edward Young
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all. -- Ben Stein
I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around. -- John McEnroe
Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler. -- Norma Shearer
What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts. -- Robert E. Lee
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. -- Shel Silverstein
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. -- Kristen Stewart
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. -- William Hazlitt
Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking. -- Jessica Valenti
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers. -- David Hemmings
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. -- Nick Cave
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. -- August Strindberg
It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people. -- Kyra Sedgwick
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. -- Dakota Johnson
We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.' -- Adora Svitak
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart! -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics. -- Karen DeCrow
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility. -- Howard Warren Buffett
I started volunteering at an animal shelter, and little by little, my life started getting better. I think that is the secret. It is just being on a mission that is something bigger than me and it's thankless. You do that because it is thankless, and I am not looking for anybody to say, 'Thanks' and 'You are great!' -- William McNamara
It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks -- Colin Baker
Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks. -- Jim Gaffigan
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers. -- David Hemmings
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. -- Emile M. Cioran
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself. -- Katie Roiphe
Don't get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother's responsibility. It's a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope. -- Stephen Colbert
Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats -- John Naughton
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count. -- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
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. -- Jim Gaffigan
Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up. -- DeWayne Owens
I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and a solitary place glad. -- John Buchan
Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and theyâ??ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
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. -- Dakota Johnson
Oh, miss Haversham said I,there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you. -- Charles Dickens

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