Toil Quotes - 4
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Our heart's where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honour We pledge to our native soil!
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More Toil Quotes
It is necessary for mortals to be worn with toil.
Euripides— Hippolytus, l.207.
The unexempt condition By which all mortal frailty must subsist, Refreshment after toil, ease after pain.
john milton— 1634 Comus, A Mask, l.684-6.
Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
wilfred owen— 1918 'Futility', collected in Poems (published1920).
No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.
sri chinmoy— "Revelation", p. 47
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— The National Gain, §20, 1765.
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond toil.
alexander maclaren— P. 230. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.
og mandino— Ch. 10 : The Scroll Marked III, p. 66
If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost, and in all labours for toil and fatigue. This will help to make him beloved of his followers.
Xenophon— Cyropaedia, Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 31
But oars alone can ne'er prevailTo reach the distant coast;The breath of Heaven must swell the sail,Or all the toil is lost.
william cowper— William Cowper, Human Frailty, Stanza 6.
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?
william wordsworth— The Tables Turned.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
Democritus— Freeman (1948) , p. 161Variant: The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.
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— "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth" In The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal Vol. V, No. 25 (January-June 1823), p. 64.
And oft-times cometh our wise Lord God, master of every trade, And tells them tales of His daily toil, of Edens newly made; And they rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid.
rudyard kipling— Dedication, Stanza 5.
For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.
alex kozinski— Discussing the right of publicity issue raised in the case White v. Samsung Elec. Am., Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993). [1]
You as a Fascist stand for the small trader against the chain-store; for the peasant against the usurer; for the nation, great or small, against the super-state; for personal business against Big Business; for the craftsman against the Machine; for the creator against the middleman; for all that prospers by individual effort and creative toil, against all that prospers in the abstract air of High Finance or of the theoretic ballyhoo of Internationalism.
wyndham lewis— British Union Quarterly, 1937
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
bertrand russell— Ch. 7: Rational, Real and Complex Numbers.
For ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear: A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile.
walter scott— Canto IV, conclusion
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— St. 60. (The Mask of Anarchy (1819))
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
augustine of hippo— p. 523. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
— Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist. The Wealth of Nations, Vol. 1, Bk. 1, Ch. 5 (1776)
And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons (1726-1730).
The genuine Anarchist looks with sheer horror upon every destruction, every mutilation of a human being, physical or moral. He loathes wars, executions and imprisonments, the grinding down of the worker's whole nature in a dreary round of toil, the sexual and economic slavery of women, the oppression of children, the crippling and poisoning of human nature by the preventable cruelty and injustice of man to man in every shape and form.
— "Anarchism and homicidal outrage" in What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction by Donald Rooum, ed. (London: Freedom Press, 1992, 1995) p. 43.
Long time thou'lt toil to gather up the heap Which thou canst scatter in a single day.
— Fragment 19
He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.
william watson— William Watson, Hood
Honor lies in honest toil.
— Glover Cleveland, letter accepting nomination for President (Aug. 18, 1884). In William Q. Stoddard, Life of Grover Cleveland, Chapter XV.
If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost, and in all labours for toil and fatigue. This will help to make him beloved of his followers.
— Cyropaedia, Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 31
The genuine Anarchist looks with sheer horror upon every destruction, every mutilation of a human being, physical or moral . He loathes wars , executions and imprisonments, the grinding down of the worker's whole nature in a dreary round of toil, the sexual and economic slavery of women, the oppression of children, the crippling and poisoning of human nature by the preventable cruelty and injustice of man to man in every shape and form.
— Charlotte Wilson, in "Anarchism and Homicidal Outrage" in What Is Anarchism? : An Introduction edited by Donald Rooum (1992, 1995) p. 43
toil is the true knight's pastime.
Charles Kingsley— The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act i, scene ii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
— Homer, The Iliad, Book XXI, line 646. Bryant's translation.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? toil on, poor heart, unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light to thee.
— Life a Duty, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Straight is the line of Duty, / Curved is the line of Beauty, / Follow the straight line, thou hall see / The curved line ever follow thee", William Maccall (c. 1830).
