| "Even pleasure itself is a toil." »Manilius |
| "The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." »Theodore Ruskin |
| "The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." »John Ruskin |
| "toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other." »Seneca |
| "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." »Winston Churchill |
| "Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age." »Johann von Goethe |
| "One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do." »Victor Hugo |
| "I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." »Winston Churchill |
| "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please." »Edmund Spenser |
| "To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain." »George Gordon Byron |
| "Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil." »Epictetus |
| "Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." »William Shakespeare |
| "Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled." »Oliver Goldsmith |
| "What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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