Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.  ~Martin H. FischerFFM

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless.  ~Charles SimmonsQSO

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.  ~Henry van DykeQSO

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.  ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.  ~Oscar Wildeunknown in HHQ, 2010 email

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.  ~George Bernard Shaw

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair.  Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.  ~Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur mis ? nu

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.  ~Isak Dinesen

It is better to wear out than to rust out.  ~Richard CumberlandDCMOO

No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him; there is always work
And tools to work withal, for those who will….
~James Russell LowellCD

People love chopping wood.  In this activity one immediately sees results.  ~Albert EinsteinFD

Without labor nothing prospers.  ~Sophocles

God sells us all things at the price of labor.  ~Leonardo da Vinci

Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man.  ~Jean Jacques RousseauQSO

To labor is to pray.  ~Motto of the BenedictinesCD

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils – boredom, vice, and want."  ~Voltaire

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

A mind always employed is always happy.  This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.  ~Thomas JeffersonGCLE

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.  ~Arnold Glasow

Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living. ~Terri Guillemets