Quotes of: Toils Keyword

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Herman Melville

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mary McCarthy

Hogwarts Choir: [singing] In the cauldron boil and bake / Fillet of a fenny snake / Scale of dragon, Tooth of wolf / Witches, mummy, maw and gulf / Double, double, toil and trouble / Fire burn and cauldron bubble! / Double, double, toil and trouble /...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.

Gitanjali

And yet the cares are many and the hours of toil are few; There is not time enough on earth for all I'd like to do; But, having lived and having toiled, I'd like the world to find Some little touch of beauty that my soul had left behind.

Edgar A. Guest

Honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland

We are all the fruits of pleasure's toil.

Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

For the dead there are no more toils.

Sophocles

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

John Singer Sargent

Dare to dream and toil to achieve.

Auliq Ice

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Hesiod

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.

J.K. Rowling

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

Edward Everett

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Self-preservation is not a man’s first duty: flight is his last. Better and wiser and infinitely nobler to stand a mark for the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" and to stop at our post though we fall there, better infinitely to toil on, ev...

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Walter Smith

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

D. H. Lawrence