Labour Quotes

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won,

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.

Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is unsuitable for an urban lifestyle.