Rose Macaulay Quotes

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

By the sweat of your brow shall you get bread to eat.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

It's bred in me that I only see real work as getting stuck in and getting your hands dirty.

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

Everyone that works knows that work is hard sometimes.

McDonald's released a new video showing how it makes their Chicken McNuggets. Apparently it turns out that McNuggets aren't made out of chicken. They're made out of people who ask too many questions.

It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

Work ... is redemption.