Bolesaus Quotes

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

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

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

I don't seek power and do not run around.

I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity. I'm a simple guy who works a lot.

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

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

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little.

I'm not that smart. I work very hard.

It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of Kings.

... a passion for anonymity.

I'm not the greatest. I'm the best available.

I'm just a senior ditch digger.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life. It can all be condensed into a single sentence, and that sentence you will find in Gray's Elegy : "The short and simple annals of the poor." That's my life, and that's all you or anyone can make out of it.

I am heartedly tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil.

There are two supreme pleasures in life. One is ideal, the other real. The ideal is when a man receives the seals of office from the hands of his Sovereign. The real pleasure comes when he hands them back.

I feel closest to God with a pitchfork full of crap in my hands. I'm serious!

I am not a superstar or an ego. I am just the same as I always was: Someone who plays football.

I keep my feet on the ground, working every day and trying to do my best.

I've worked my butt off. That keeps my feet on the ground - I'm the same Luis Fonsi onstage and at home cooking an omelette in basketball shorts.

I use what God had given me. I don't wish for anything else. I don't wish I can be a high-flier.