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Toil Quotes - Page 7

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

"A Homily on Ideals in Life, Uttered in Springtime on Rising from a Drunken Slumber" (ca. 750)

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

"Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

John Ford (1811). “John Ford's Dramatic Works”, p.139

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.875, Delphi Classics

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

Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262