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)