Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life? — Li Bai Copy Share Image
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own. — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of… — Johann Martin Usteri Copy Share Image
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead… — John Newton Copy Share Image
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, behind all great achievement there lies great toil: nothing that is worth doing is done easily.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Work is a means; it is not an end. And for any tasks that can be performed or eliminated by a capital… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth The Sabbath resting comes, Gathering the sons of toil and care Back to their peaceful homes;… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
A few more years shall roll, A few more seasons come; And we shall be with those that rest, Asleep within the… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is… — Rocco DiSpirito Copy Share Image
It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity. — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image