Labor Quotes

"Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned."

"The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands"

"I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would like to God that such a system prevailed all over the world"

"There is no real wealth but the labor of man."

"He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor."

"An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen."

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."

"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."

"Industry cannot flourish if labor languish"

"It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail."

"Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price."

"Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man."

"Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise."

"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."

"All wealth is the product of labor."

"Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous."

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

"Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy, and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people."

"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."