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Toil Quotes - Page 8

The method of postulating what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Bertrand Russell (2007). “Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy”, p.71, Spokesman Books

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1902*). “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: Selected and Translated by T. Bailey Saunders”

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.304, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.

Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.17, Hachette UK

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

"Licymnius". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 430 BCE.

She cleans a toilet inside and out under a minute. More like terrifying

Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.120, Simon and Schuster