LABOR

Related Subjects: Business, Effort, Employment, Industry, Sweat, Union, Wages, Work

1. Labor: one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.—AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
   

2. Even in the meanest sorts of Labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.—CARLYLE, Past and Present
   

3. Honest labour bears a lovely face.—THOMAS DEKKER, Patient Grissell
   

4. By labor Wisdom gives poignancy to pleasure, and by pleasure she restores vigor to labor.—FENELON, Telemachus
   

5. Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.—ULYSSES S. GRANT
   

6. Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labour; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables

7. Everything in the world is purchased by labor, and our passions are the only causes of labor.—DAVID HUME
   

8. The most extraordinary spectacle is the vast expenditure of labor and time wasted in obtaining mere subsistence.—RICHARD JEFFERIES, The Story of My Heart
   

9. Bodily labour earns not much.—Proverb
   

10. Labor was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things.—ADAM SMITH, The Wealth of Nations
    

11. Ah, why
    Should life all labour be?—TENNYSON, The Lotos-Eaters
    

12. Labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and
    want.—VOLTAIRE, Candide Labor as a social group
    

13. I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else would lead you out.—EUGENE V. DEBS
    

14. Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first  existed.—LINCOLN
    

15. Inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things ought to belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others, without labor, have enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor as nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government.—LINCOLN
    

16. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
    Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
    The emptiness of ages in his face,
    And on his back the burden of the world.—EDWIN MARKHAM, The Man With the Hoe
    

17. Heart of the people! Workingmen!
    Marrow and nerve of human powers;
    Who on your sturdy backs sustain
    Through streaming time this world of ours.—R. M. MILNES, Labor
    

18. All their devices for cheapening labour simply resulted in increasing the burden of labour.—WILLIAM MORRIS, News from Nowhere
    

19. I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

20. Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.—DANIEL WEBSTER
    

21. Labor and work are quite different matters. Labor is a commodity in terms of applied energy; work is an activity wherein the worker's personality effects or shapes his product.—S. G. WILLIAMSON, The American Craftsman