(49 quotes found)
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble”
William Shakespeare
“Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness”
Herman Melville
“Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit”
Sir Walter Scott
“To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still”
Oscar Wilde
“Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these”
Bible
“The path that leads to a loaf of bread, Winds through the swamps of toil; And the path that leads to a suit of clothes, Goes through a flowerless soil, And the paths that lead to the loaf of bread, And the suit of clothes are hard to tread”
Sam Walter Foss
“And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.”
“The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat”
Horace
“God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil”
Epictetus
“It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.”
Aesop
