Bread Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor…

— Anne Baxter

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in…

— Benedict of Nursia

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes…

— Samuel Smiles

You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For…

— John Smith

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

— Thomas Jefferson

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

— Thomas F. Wilson

No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence…

— William Wilberforce

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

— Victor Hugo

“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages have argued…

— Guy Standing

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

— T. S. Eliot

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

— Socrates