I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
— Hugo Grotius
He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, the original one having been shot away.
— Cormac McCarthy
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
— Friedrich Schiller
It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. — Richard Russo
Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring — Virginia Woolf
God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously. — Margaret Atwood
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'. — A.P. Herbert
Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough. — Chai Lu
At last the spring thaw came, and graves were laboriously prepared for the nine silent harvests of the grim reaper which waited in the tomb. — H.P. Lovecraft
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously. — Kate Smith
We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us. — Lars Saabye Christensen
What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. — Maurice Maeterlinck
