Care Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors…

— Henry David Thoreau

For when men know they are working on what belongs to them, they work with far greater eagerness and diligence. Nay, in a word,…

— Pope Leo XIII

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make…

— George Meredith

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

— John Steinbeck

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

— Brand Blanshard

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they…

— Algernon Sidney

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no…

— Benjamin Franklin

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

— William Shakespeare