Labor Day Quotes and Sayings

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

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
- Doug Larson

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France

Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
- Samual Gempers

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
- Henry George

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

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

God give me work, till my life shall end
And life, till my work is done.
- Epitaph of Winifred Holtby

Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
- Douglas Pagels

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it’s own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one’s thoughts.
- Mary Ellen Chase

Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister .
- Thorstein Veblen

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

God sells us all things at the price of labor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Without labor nothing prospers.
- Sophocles

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
- John Locke

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

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

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