Quotes with labor

  • The end of labor is to gain leisure.
  • According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
  • Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
  • No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
  • Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
  • I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
  • After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
  • A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
  • A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
  • The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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  • George Jean Nathan A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Lewis Mumford By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Joseph Joubert Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Confucius Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Vauvenargues Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Aristotle The end of labor is to gain leisure.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Horace You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Aldous Huxley A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Victor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • William Booth A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • William Faulkner A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Lorrie Moore A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Annie Dillard A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Jacques Maritain A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Barry Commoner After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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