379 Quotes About Labor

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

...the disease killed eight thousand...between its first appearance in October 1635 and its eventual disappearance in July 1637...The appalling impact of the plague had two significant consequences. One was that it created a shortage of labor and thus resulted in a rise in wages as employers competed for man-power.

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.

If history belongs to the winners, legend belongs to the losers.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour

To create a little flower is the labor of ages.

We're all stupid, chasing after vanity!" ... "Really, it comes from idleness! Everything's near, everything's close at hand, yet we run to some far-off kingdom. Is it not life, if one is occupied, be it even in a remote corner? The pleasure indeed consists in labor. And nothing's sweeter than the fruit of one's own labors . . .

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.