A very Happy Labor Day to everyone, if you happen to visit this site on the Labor day.
Update: The labor day weekend is just round the corner and I am looking forward to it. Like every year, I thought of updating this page a bit, and add a few Labor day quotes. This year we have a added a video on the brief History of Labor day. Please scroll down to view it. You can also have a look at these quotes about hard work if you are looking for more.
This collection of famous quotes on labor day was inspired by this saying:
“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
~Leonardo da Vinci
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
~Anatole France
A Brief History of Labor day from History Channel:
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
~ Horace
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
~ Horace
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
~Aristotle
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
~John Locke
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
~Doug Larson
Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor
~ Bertrand Russell
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
~ Henry van Dyke
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity – Posterity has done nothing for us.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
~ H.L. Mencken
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
~ H.M. Tomlinson
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
~ Aristotle
A bad day at work is better than a good day in hell.
~ Scott Johnson
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
~H.L. Mencken
There is power, there is power in a band of working men, when they stand, hand in hand. That’s a power, that’s a power that must rule in every land.
~ Joe Hill
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
~ Adam Smith
The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
~Elbert Hubbard
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
~Anatole France
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
~Bill Dodds
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level–I mean the wages of decent living.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hitler is famous for the wrong reasons, but he was indeed a great thinker as well.
For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labor, which is what gives money its value.
~ Adolf Hitler
Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearned, and make the learned smile.
~ Alexander Pope
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity – Posterity has done nothing for us.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson
The highest pleasure to be gout out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
~Mark Twain
If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators
~ Bertrand Russell
I hope you will have a Splendid labor day weekend. Feel free to add your own favorite quotes about Labor day.
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