Harold B. Lee Quotes

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

At 12 years old, I raised a premature baby cow on our farm because her mom had died. I bottle-fed it every day, let it suck on my chin, and babied it until it was stable.

Workin' so hard every night and day and now we get to lay back.

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

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

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

If I'm going to play without any rest I might as well not play at all. I rest a lot but I work a lot too.

I just try to get as much sleep as I can when I'm not working.

Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.

The offseason is completely different. You're not at work. You're working out, but you're not at work.

I try to keep a Sabbath perspective.

Stray cattle roam every lane and alley, but we are building cow shelters and trying to resolve the problem.

What I will do is work, although it is clear that we all want to play.

From labor there shall come forth rest.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

"Sunday" was the best one I think I made.