Yields

Famous quotes containing the word yields:

    “But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constant and imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Slow work yields fine products.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)