(1805 quotes found)
“The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.”
Karl Marx
“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
William Faulkner
“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself”
William Ellery Channing
“…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...”
George Q. Cannon
“Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity”
“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”
Henry Kissinger
“The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.”
Franklin P. Jones
“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
Victor Hugo
“A fair return for their labor so as to have good homes, good clothing, good food”
Daniel Webster
“I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.”
Lord Chesterfield
