Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Labour has a bitter root but a sweet taste. Dan. Pr.

Labour is exercise continued to fatigue; exercise is labour used only while it produces pleasure. Johnson.

Labour is life. From the inmost heart of the 35 worker rises his God-given force—the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God. Carlyle.

Labour is preferable to idleness, as brightness to rust. Plato.

Labour is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Anon.

Labour is the fabled magician's wand, the philosopher's stone, and the cap of Fortunatus. J. Johnson.

Labour is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. J. G. Holland.

Labour is the Lethe of both past and present. 40 Jean Paul.

Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands. Schiller.

Labour is the talisman that has raised man from the condition of the savage. M'Culloch.