Best pleasure & labor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.”

Knows May Pain Pleasure Labor Relaxation Idleness

“Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.”

Source: Poems of William Cowper, Esq

“Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!”

Men Has Beens Hands Purpose Voice Pleasure Plans Sweet Labor Stones Lonely Died Chains Bubbles Weary Deaf Scorned

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.”

Men Wells Mean Law Pleasure Numbers Conditions Depends Consequence Labor Laws Of Nature Obtaining Subsistence

Book:Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica

Source: Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”

Life Success Life Is Joy Work Pleasure Duty Labor Slavery Work Effort Joy In Work

Author:Maxim Gorky

“There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.”

Real Pain Pleasure Labor Valuable Noble Without Pain

Author:Joseph Addison

“If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.”

Ifs Want Law Pleasure Labor Toil

Book:Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

“The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.”

Want Giving Mean Hard Age Action Enjoy Born Hours Wealth Pleasure Poverty Clear Comfort Conscience Labor Guilt Wealth And Poverty

Book:The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

“Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.”

Ifs Men Sleep Pleasure Source Morality Labor Innocent Forbidden Fountain Relaxation Maxims Recreation Intervals Liable Intemperance

Author:Orville Dewey

“God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.”

World Stills Pleasure This World Tears Serious Promise Labor Wit Trials Thanks Labour Abandon Salt Severe Gaiety

Author:Ernest Legouve

“There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.”

“And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure.”

Men May Use Political Differences Pleasure Principles Products Degrees Labor Slavery Property Deny Former Latter Ownership

Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets

Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets

“Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.”

Long Has Beens Moments Wisdom Pain Form Pleasure Blood Objects Long Time Labor Essence Dull Melancholy Cheerful

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.”

Freedom Pleasure Highest Labor Labor Day Happy Labor Day Labor Day Wishes

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.”

Pleasure Results Effort Beauty Seeing Fashion Missing Return Labor Surface Forfeit

Author:Roderick E. Stevens

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.”

Men Giving Mind May Body Enjoy Sound Pleasure Conditions Industry Labor Foundation Instruments Very Good Stranger Improvement Vehicle Indispensable Possessing Relish Sound Mind Sound Body

Author:Robert Blair

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