Laboriously Quotes

34 Laboriously quotes by 32 unique authors

I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously,… — Edward Lear
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment. — Friedrich Schiller
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up,… — D. H. Lawrence
Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it… — John Ruskin
The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over… — Eileen Myles
It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and… — Robert Musil
A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom. — Mirra Komarovsky
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed… — Eric Butterworth
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'. — A. P. Herbert
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual… — Arthur Koestler
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible… — Lynne Truss
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and… — H. L. Mencken
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. — Hugo Grotius
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently… — Albert Einstein
What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person… — Rollo May
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off… — Robert Genn
Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we… — Marcus Garvey
Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good… — John Muir
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous… — H.G. Wells
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. — Richard Russo
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive… — Will Self

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