Labour

Famous quotes containing the word labour:

    Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labour which its possessor will take in exchange for it.
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
    Cheers the tar’s labour or the Turkman’s rest.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “To be born woman is to know—
    Although they do not talk of it at school—
    That we must labour to be beautiful.”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)