(49 quotes found)
“I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.”
William Wycherley
“So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government, `I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'”
Winston Churchill
“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”
“Toil shall not afflict them in it, nor shall they be ever ejected from it.”
quran
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
“And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.”
John Dryden
“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”
Benjamin Franklin
“And blessed are the horny hands of toil”
James Russell Lowell
“The Man who with undaunted toils,/ sails unknown seas to unknown soils,/ With various wonders feasts his Sight: What stranger wonders does he write?”
