Quotes of: Toils Keyword

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Tina Brown

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Denis Kearney

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

James Wolcott

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Charles Churchill

For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

Alexander Pope

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

Khaled Hosseini

Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.

The House of the Seven Gables

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

Bryan Batt

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Alone: The Second World War (Condensed) Series, Book 2

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

Life Without Principle

Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.

The Scarlet Letter

In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

As the sun shines I will make hay To keep failure at bay For there remaineth a pay For my honest toil each day.

Ogwo David Emenike

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Sallust

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…

Thomas Aquinas

Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past, And each heart is whispering, 'Home, Home at last.

Thomas Hood

This life, so thrift and vague, nothing, but toil and worries, dread, and casts our souls into eternal journey of no return

Michael Bassey Johnson

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

William Alexander

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

William H. Wharton