Famous quotes containing the word toil:
“My weary limbs are scarcely stretched for repose, before red dawn peeps into my chamber window, and the birds in the whispering leaves over the roof, apprise me by their sweetest notes that another day of toil awaits me. I arise, the harness is hastily adjusted and once more I step upon the tread-mill.”
—“E. B.,” U.S. farmer. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)
“In all toil there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 14:23.
“Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)