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Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

Quote by Adam Smith about money, things

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

Quote by Samuel Smiles about work

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about pleasure, good, good luck

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Quote by Francis Bacon

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Quote by Warren Beatty about wealth, money, people

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Quote by Aristotel about work, end

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. ''

Quote by Augustin de Hipona

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Quote by Winston Churchill about destruction, day

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about workers, victory

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about americans, time

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest...

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about advertising, reward, country

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about unforeseen, power

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about curiosity, knowledge

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about ambition, home, happiness, end

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation, people

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about genius

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Quote by Frederick Law Olmsted about night, use, thinking, work

I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.

Quote by Charles Osgood about love

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov