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| I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~ D.H. Lawrence |
| Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ~ Henry van Dyke |
| If you want to kill time, try working it to death. ~ Sam Levonson |
| To labor is to pray. ~ Motto of the Benedictines |
| A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. ~ Geoffrey Norman |
| The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. ~ Isak Dinesen |
| Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. ~ George Sheehan |
No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him; there is always work
And tools to work withal, for those who will….
~ James Russell Lowell |
| Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. ~ Charles Wagner |
| God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~ Leonardo da Vinci |
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| Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~ Scottish Proverb |
| "I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils – boredom, vice, and want." ~ Voltaire |
| Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~ Le Duc de Lévis, |
| What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. ~ Arnold Glasow |
| Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. ~ Marc Chagall |
| It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~ Charles Baudelaire |
| When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~ Pablo Picasso |
| There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. ~ Author Unknown |
| We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~ Gerald Brenan, |
| Without labor nothing prospers. ~ Sophocles |
To a bee, honey is work
To us, it is leisure, luxury, pleasure.
If only the eating thereof
would fill us with the spirit of hard work.
~ Corri Alius |
| Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
| It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless. ~ Charles Simmons |
| Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ~ Adam Smith |
| Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness. ~ Galen |
| Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ~ Anatole France, |
For me the diamond dawns are set
In rings of beauty,
And all my ways are dewy wet
With pleasant duty.
~ John Townsend Trowbridge |
| People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ~ Albert Einstein |
| A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ~ Thomas Jefferson |