Toil Quotes

342 Toil quotes by 252 unique authors

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys,… — William Osler
Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood. — Don McLean
I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my… — Ronald Reagan
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the… — Martha Finley
None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as… — Karl Marx
Those who think must govern those that toil. — Oliver Goldsmith
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. — Benjamin Franklin
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. — Emily Dickinson
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a… — Tom Hodgkinson
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.… — Victor Hugo
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. — H P Lovecraft
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which… — James Madison
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — John Stuart Mill
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens. — Rick Perry
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. — John Ruskin
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil… — Anthony Trollope
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity… — Ruskin Bond
Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare

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