Harder Quote by T. S. Eliot Download Open image “The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.” — T. S. Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Harder Idleness Labor Men Stills
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 Copy Share Image
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing tends to materialize man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labor — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the divisionof labor. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
We've all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you… — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All… — Rick Riordan Copy Share
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it. — Ty Segall Copy Share Image