I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness… — Richard Bode Copy Share Image
Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats in D.C. seem to forget that every dollar they spend is the result of somebody else's labor. — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it. — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Tending 100-year-old vines, I've been fortunate to craft highly rated, small production, estate grown wines since 1998. A labor of love, our… — Michael Chiarello Copy Share Image
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are… — Robert S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“We need an uprising to guarantee that the bullies with unchecked and unlimited power and money do not continue getting away with… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America. — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
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