Quotes of Labour - somelinesforyou

“ War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. ”

- John Dryden

“ Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. ”

- Ben Stein

“ The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''. ”

- Charles F. Kettering

“ Falstaff sweats to death and lards the lean earth as he walks along. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ”

- The Bible

“ By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ I have had my labour for my travail. - Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. ”

- St. Bernard

“ Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ Measure not the workUntil the day's out and the labour done. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. - Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born. ”

- Horace

“ We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. ”

- Roy Jenkins

“ To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small. ”

- Unknown

“ Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out? ”

- Joe Kapp

“ To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818. ”

- George Gordon Byron

“ To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying. ”

- Jean Anouilh

“ No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. ”

- John Ruskin

“ He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it. ”

- Hesiod

“ Work is not a curse, but drudgery is! ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint. ”

- John Milton

“ Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. - King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. ”

- Bible
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