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Adam Smith
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Bill Dodds
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day.
Doug Larson
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
Elbert Hubbard
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Epitaph of Winifred Holtby
God give me work, till my life shall endAnd life, till my work is done.
H.L. Mencken
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
H.M. Tomlinson
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
Henry van Dyke
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
Leonardo da Vinci
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Marc Chagall
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
Ovid
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Sophocles
Without labor nothing prospers.
Thomas Jefferson
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
 
 
 
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