Labour

Famous quotes containing the word labour:

“Work apace, apace, apace, apace;
Honest labour bears a lovely face;”
—Thomas Dekker (1572?–1632?)

“all her labour was but as a block
Left in the quarry;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)