Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.
Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower minimum wage for tipped workers than for everybody else, reinforcing the industry’s
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Ah, why should life all labor be?
Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.
Labor is cheap, friends are expensive, but sons are priceless.
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
O sweet solace of labors. [Lat. , O laborum Dulce lenimen. ]
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
[T]he State. . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle;. . . they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow;. . . those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence,. . . a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.