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Labour
The insupportable labour of doing nothing.
STEELE, SIR RICHARD
So do you bees make honey, not for yourselves.
VIRGIL
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.
Calvin Coolidge
Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Galen
Don’t waste any time mourning—organize!
Joe Hill
Each needs the other; capital cannot do without labour, nor labour without capital.
Pope Leo XIII
Labour is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labour, and could never have existed if labour had not first existed.
Abraham Lincoln
The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.
Abraham Lincoln
The labourer is worthy of his hire.
Luke
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling the field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
Language
Language is fossil poetry.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
Slovenly languge corrodes the mind.
James Truslow Adams
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Goethe
There is no master key to the inner life of a people but language unlocks a vast treasure house.
Edgar Lee Hewett
Every language is a temple in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
Noah Webster
Laughter
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
FARQUHAR, GEORGE
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
HOBBES, THOMAS
Is he gone to a land of no laughter,
The man who made mirth for us all?
RHOADES, JAMES
Nothing in life is more worthy than your laughter. Never lose it. Events come and go. Some are pleasant, and others, unpleasant. There is some area deep in you that is left untouched. Hold on to what is untouched. Then you will be able to keep laughing.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
A God who could not smile could not have created this humorous universe.
SRI AUROBINDO
Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
HENRY WORD BEECHER
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
JEAN HOUSTON
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humour in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
BILL COSBY
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Laughter is an instant vacation.
MILTON BERLE
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin
You no doubt laugh in your sleeve.
Cicero
The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
Oliver Goldsmith
Laughter unquenchable arose among the blessed gods.
Homer
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.
Bob Hope
I laugh because I must not cry.
Abraham Lincoln
There are three things which are real: God, humanfolly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
Aubrey Menen
He deserved Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Peophet Mohammed
Everything gives cause for either laughter or tears.
Seneca
The pleasantest laughter is at the expense of our enemies.
Sophocles
Laughter is not a bad beginning or a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Law
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
CHATHAM, WILLIAM PITT
The good of the people is the highest law.
CICERO
If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
FLETCHER, ANDREW
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits strict justice.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
CICERO
A government of laws and not of men.
Jonh Adams
Law is a pledge that the citizens of a state will do justice to one another.
Aristotle
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
Henry Ward Beecher
The laws place the safety of all before the safety of individuals.
Cicero
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they make.
Charles John Darling
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
otto von bismark
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone
The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
Robert Bolt
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
Calvin Coolidge
It cannot be helped it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws, is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
Junius
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only think of doing so.
Immanuel Kant
The purpose of law is to prevent the strong from always having their way.
Ovid
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
Leo tolstoy
Lawyers
He that pleads his own cause has a fool for his client.
English Proverb
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
Shakespeare
The idea of having a lawyer present before you can ask a man a question about whether he has committed a crime is taking absurdity to the extreme.
Jon L. Mcclellan
Leadership
I light my candle from their torches.
Robert Burton
And when we think we lead we most are led.
Lord Byron
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
You cannot be a leader and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Sam Rayburn
Reason and calm judgement, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
Tactius
Learning
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
BACON, FRANCIS
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
BURKE, EDMUND
With just enough of learning to misquote.
BYRON, GEORGE
But I grow old always learning many things.
SOLON, Greek lawgiver
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
All men by nature desire to know.
Aristotle
Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve.
Francis Bacon
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Confucius
A smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
Charles Dickense
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
It is well to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
Publilius Syrus
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any valuable art.
Anthony Trollope
Leisure
The aim of education is the wise use of leisure.
Aristotle
When a man’s busy, why, leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure; ‘Faith and at leisure once in he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
Robert Browning
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Cicero
It is the mark of a superior man that he will take no harmful ease.
Confucius
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.
Ben Franklin
Give time to your friends, leisure to your wife, relax your mind, give rest to your body, so that you may better fulfil your accustomed occupation.
Phaedrus
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Bertrand Russell
Liberty
The tree of Liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
BARERE DE VIEUZAC, BERTRAND
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
CURRAN, JOHN PHILPOT
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
DISRAELI, BENJAMIN
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
MILL, JOHN STUART
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
Maxwell Anderson
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appeties….
Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, any by parts.
Edmund Burke
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
Learned Hand
The god who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
General Douglas Macarthur
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he established a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
Liberty means responsiblity: That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
Max sterner
The contest, for ages, has been to rescue liberty from the grasap of executive power.
Daniel Webster
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster
Life
Life is one long process of getting tired.
BUTLER, SAMUUEL
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
BUTLER, SAMUUEL
The best of life is but intoxication.
BYRON, GEORGE
Life’s too short for chess.
BYRON, HENRY JAMES
It’s as large as life, and twice as natural!
CAROLL, LEWIS
What times! What ways of life!
CICERO
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
CLARE, JOHN
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY
He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
DEFOE, DANIEL
Spare all I have, and take my life.
FARQUHAR, GEORGE
Life is a jest; and all things show it
I thought so once; but now I know it.
GAY, JOHN
Life is made up of marble and mud.
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
HOBBES, THOMAS
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel.
HOPE, LAURENCE
Seize the present day, trusting the morrow as little as may be.
HORACE
Life is just one damned thing after another.
HUBBARD, ELBBERT
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
LAMB, CHARLES
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE
There is no wealth but life.
RUSKIN, JOHN
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
The time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
SMITH, LOGAN PEARSALL
Survival of the fittest.
SPENCER, HERBERT
If Light can thus deceive, whrefore not Life?
WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO
That best portion of good man’s life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
Literature
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
LOVER, SAMUEL
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
MORLEY, JOHN VISCOUNT
Living
The living need charity more than the dead.
ARNOLD, GEORGE
Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
DRYDEN, JOHN
To live by one man’s will became the cause of all men’s misery.
HOOKER, RICHARD
He left the name, at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
For we that live to please, must please to live.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
PITT, WILLIAM
Hobbies clearly proves that every creature
Lives in a state of war by nature.
SWIFT, JONATHAN
There is probably no man living, though ever so great a fool, that cannot do something or other well.
WARREN, SAMUEL
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
RAJNEESH
You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Existence wants your life to become a festival…because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.
OSHO
LonelIness
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
I’m lonesome. They are all dying. I have hardly a warm personal enemy left.
WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT Mc NEILL
It is loneliness that makes the ludest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
Eric Hoffer
All this hideous doubt, despair, and dark conclusion of the soul a lonely man must know, for he is united to no image save that which he createss himself.
Thomas Wolfe
Love
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
BARRIE, SIR JAMES MATTHEW
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
It is woman’s whole existence.
BYRON, GEORGE
You never loved the sun in heaven as I have loved the rain.
CHESTEERTON, GILBERT KEITH
I love it, I love it; and who shall dare To chide me from loving that old armchair?
COOK, ELIZA
There is no hiding love from lover’s eyes.
CROWNE, JOHN
The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
DANTE, ALIGHIERI
I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
DONNE, JOHN
The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love.
EDWARDS, RICHARD
Do well, and right, and let the world sink.
HERBERT, GEORGE
Love is like the measles; we all have go through it.
JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA
Love’s like the measles—all the worse when it comes late in life.
JERROLD, DOUGLAS WILLIAM
And to know, when far from the lips we love,
We’ve but to make love to the lips we are near.
MOORE, THOMAS
But there’s nothing half so sweet in life
As love’s young dream.
MOORE, THOMAS
And with the morn those angel faces smile
While I have loved long since, and lost a while.
NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY
Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Love, unconquered in battle.
SOPHOCLES
He that loves not his wife and children, feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.
TAYLOR, JEREMY
We needs must love the highest when we see it.
ALFRED TENNYSON
If you love life, life will love you back.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
PLATO
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
MARTIN LUTHER KING
You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!
ANONYMOUS
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
JANE AUSTIN
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguished form of love.
CHINMOY K GHOSE
There is only one caste and that is the caste of humanity. There is only one religion and that is the religion of love. There is only one God and that is the Omnipresent God. There is only one language and that is the language of the heart. Hence love is God.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Loyalty
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Woodrow Wilson
Luxury
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP
Very tragical mirth.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Luxury and avarice—these pests have been the ruin of every state.
Cato
Faint-hearted men are the fruit of luxurious countries. The same soil never produces both luxuries and heroes.
Herodotus
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really storms is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
Voltaire
On the soft beds of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
Edward Young