Quotes on May Day

There is no substitute for hard work.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

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

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

All furnished, all in arms;_x000D_ _x000D_ All plum'd like estridges that with the wind_x000D_ _x000D_ Bated like eagles having lately bathed;_x000D_ _x000D_ Glittering in golden coats like images;_x000D_ _x000D_ As full of spirit as the month of May_x000D_ _x000D_ And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;_x000D_ _x000D_ Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

Oh! that we two were Maying_x000D_ _x000D_ Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;_x000D_ _x000D_ Like children with violets playing,_x000D_ _x000D_ In the shade of the whispering trees.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.