43 Quotes About Toil

Opportunities do not come in fancy wrappers; only toffees do which give just temporary contentment. Toil to unwrap the real one, covered in hardships.

We are all the fruits of pleasure's toil.

As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery.

If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,For the lesson thou hast taught!Thus at the flaming forge of lifeOur fortunes must be wrought

Naked we were born, naked shall we return to grave. What then is the toil?

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.