Quotes and Sayings About Toil
-
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
-- Alan Bradley -
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
-- Alexander Pope -
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
-- Alexander Pope -
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
-- Alexander the Great -
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
-- Alfred the Great -
Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.
-- Alistair Begg -
The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.
-- Anders Chydenius -
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
-- Aristotle -
If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.
-- Aristotle -
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
-- Bayard Taylor -
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet -
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!
-- Celia Imrie -
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.
-- Charles Lamb -
Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'
-- Charles Lamb -
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
-- Democritus -
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
-- Denis Kearney -
Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.
-- Ebenezer Elliott -
Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
-- Edward Everett -
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .
-- Edward Everett -
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."
-- Edward Everett Hale
