Labor Day Quotes

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Quotations for Labor Day

From Beavers, Bees should learn to mend their Ways;
A Bee just Works; a Beaver Works and Plays.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Certain Quadrupeds," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924

Here's to the man who labors and does it with a song. He stimulates his neighbors and helps the world along. ~Walt Mason

There are times in life when there's absolutely nothing you can do, also known as a chance to relax. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

See! without labour nothing prospers well. ~Sophocles, translated by E. H. Plumptre

But man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another. ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, 1881, translated by Lafcadio Hearn

This is the gospel of labour — ring it, ye bells of the kirk —
The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work.
This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-cursed soil —
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
~Henry Van Dyke, "The Toiling of Felix: The Gospel of Labour," 1900

FUN is the safety-valve to let off the steam pressure out of the boiler to keep the old thing from busting. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour. ~Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), translated by Maurice Baring

That's why Labor Day is a red-letter news day—
Blue Monday doesn't come until Tuesday.
~Ogden Nash, "We'll All Feel Better by Wednesday," Versus, 1949

...life is hard work... ~William Huntington (1745–1813)

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor. ~Leo Tolstoy

HAMMOCK From the Lat. hamus, hook, and Grk. makar, happy. Happiness on hooks. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904

The man who does not relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. ~Elbert Hubbard, "Richard Wagner," Little Journeys to Homes of Great Musicians, 1901

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