Labor Day Quotes: top 48 famous quotes about Labor Day

Labor Day Quotes & Sayings

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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed. — Abraham Lincoln

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. — Jhonen Vasquez

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. — Thomas Jefferson

Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans. — James P. Hoffa

He's a buying dude, and I've got to sell him something - like my credibility. (On sale Today through Labor Day.) — Jarod Kintz

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive. — John Milton

It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families. — Bill Vaughan

Today, in the May Day, find a worker and shake his hand with gratitude! Without workers, no civilisation could be built! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America. — Michael Wilbon

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. — Samuel Gompers

I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life. — Sarah Shahi

Of course I wanted to embarrass my children one day. Isn't that why people had kids?
Besides free labor, I mean. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers. — Thomas Perez

I've always enjoyed a comfortable life without having to perform a single day of honest labor. Now I have responsibilities. — Lisa Kleypas

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. — Brooks Atkinson

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work? — Carlos Mencia

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style. — William Butler Yeats

Labor Day is really the last sweet taste of summer. One final pardon before all your Mondays become Mondays again. — Emma Mills

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

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day. — P. J. O'Rourke

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue. — August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment. — Stacy London

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow

As the sun shines I will make hay
To keep failure at bay
For there remaineth a pay
For my honest toil each day. — Ogwo David Emenike

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist. — Andre Leon Talley

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November. — Peter Jennings

Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. — Brendan I. Koerner

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. — Jim Rohn

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. — Henry Ford

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor. — Mark Twain

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. — John Ruskin

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt

We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil. — Toussaint Louverture

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor. — Jimmy Hoffa

No great achievement is possible without persistent work. — Bertrand Russell

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend. — Chris Bohjalian

Labour day is a great American holiday that people
celebrate by going out and buying products
made in China — David Letterman

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life. — Confucius

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell . — Kristen Stewart

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage. — Elbert Hubbard

13Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. — Anonymous

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job. — Sherwood Boehlert

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. — Nicholas D. Kristof