Toil Quotes - Page 5

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

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

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.