Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. — Walter Smith 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
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat… — Siobhan Dowd Copy Share Image
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All… — Vijender Singh Copy Share Image
Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them… — Saint Sebastian Copy Share Image
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft… — Clinton Scollard Copy Share Image
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith. — Macarius of Egypt Copy Share Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image