(49 quotes found)
“Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.”
Charles Churchill
“TOIL and grow rich, what's that but to lie with a foul witch and after, drained dry, to be brought to the chamber where lies one long sought with despair.”
William Butler Yeats
“Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.”
Walter Smith
“For the dead there are no more toils.”
Sophocles
“Light is the task where many share the toil.”
Homer
“Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.”
William Alexander
“From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.”
William Cowper
“None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I toiled over whether to use them,”
Charlie Weis
“We have borne the brunt again of a dropped catch. The bowlers toiled hard and I can't fault them for that. They tried to take wickets all the time.”
Mickey Arthur
