“In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other. — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. — Livy 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
“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
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
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“For toil is the great grinding stone to make keen the blade of your spirit. Toil is the ladder by which your… — Grady Hendrix Copy Share Image
The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple,… — Bernard Meltzer Copy Share Image
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who… — Aristotle 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
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
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
“Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? — John Sullivan Dwight Copy Share Image
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay Copy Share Image
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
