Labour Quotes

622 Labour quotes by 397 unique authors

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our… — Tom Hodgkinson
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was… — Douglas Adams
Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of… — William Shakespeare
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the… — Roland Barthes
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater… — Bertrand Russell
And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril… — C.S. Lewis
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs… — Dylan Thomas
He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval,… — Emily Bronte
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on… — William Shakespeare
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into… — Charles Dickens
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes… — Margaret Thatcher
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours,… — Lord Byron
Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee… — J.R.R. Tolkien
All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded… — William Shakespeare
I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered,… — Bertrand Russell
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew… — Emily Dickinson
No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move… — John Calvin
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect… — Marcel Proust
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that… — William Butler Yeats
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted… — Nikola Tesla
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had… — Raoul Vaneigem
What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me… — Erlend Loe
evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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