To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and… — Mencius Copy Share Image
A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who… — Ovid Copy Share Image
We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered,… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of… — Babe Paley Copy Share Image
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its… — Martial Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone. — William of Conches Copy Share Image
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Naked we were born, naked shall we return to grave. What then is the toil?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . . — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
