LABOR QUOTES II
quotations about labor
It is better to drink the wine of industry from an earthen cup, than the wine of indolence from a silver tankard.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
THALES
attributed, Day's Collacon
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its price tag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.
LEAH HAGER COHEN
Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
LUDWIG VON MISES
Liberalism
In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPER
Hope
Labour, though it was at first inflicted as a curse, seems to be the gentlest of all punishments, and is fruitful of a thousand blessings.
JOHN ROGERS PITMAN
"Goodness of God", A Second Course of Sermons for the Year
Our experience tells us what is labour and recreation.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Labour is the source of every blessing.
AESOP
"The Brazier and His Dog", Aesop's Fables
The qualities of labor, like tools,
Grow brighter when used.
SUSAN H. BOGGS
"Labor", Poems
I have two problems with hard labor: hard and labor.
JAROD KINTZ
$3.33
It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.
HORACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.
ERASMUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"Fragments of a Tariff Discussion", December 1, 1847
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
LEO TOLSTOY
Anna Karenina
The only real riches are labor; everything else is but the sign or abuse of it.
LEMONTEY
attributed, A Concise Exposition of the Doctrine of Association
He that labors is tempted by one devil; he that is idle, by a thousand.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Labor has a bitter root, but a sweet taste.
HALM
attributed, Day's Collacon
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
T. S. ELIOT
The Rock
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
SAADI
attributed, Day's Collacon