Labouring Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed,…
— David Brainerd
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Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
— John Bunyan
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My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
— William Shakespeare
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Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having…
— Maurice Chevalier
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Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated…
— Laurie Penny
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In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
— Horace
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We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down…
— John Green
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When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend…
— John de Ruiter
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We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
— J I Packer
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He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying…
— Charles Dickens
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring…
— Asger Jorn
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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can…
— Erasmus Darwin
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In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every…
— John Dryden
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It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up…
— Peter Hook
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring…
— James Madison
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or…
— Tariq Ramadan
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Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes…
— T.E. Lawrence
Who Wrote These Labouring Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Labouring Quotes as follows: