There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
—Oscar Wilde
Without labor nothing prospers.
—Sophocles
Most of us continue to work for wages in a highly unequal social system that denies us meaningful work and a decent return for our labor. That simple fact defines a set of common interests of immense democratic potential.
—Charles Bergquist
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat their own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
—Dorothy L. Sayers
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
—Samuel McChord Crothers
Where the whole man is involved, there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
—Marshall McLuhan
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
—Francis Quarles