Hard Labour Quotes

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.

Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

When I left school I went to college and then I remember doing three weeks labouring for someone and it was the worst three weeks of my life.

Imprisonment with hard labour for one month for idle and disorderly persons, including anyone who is able to maintain himself and his family entirely or partly by work or other means, and who willfully refuses or neglects to do so, so that he himself or a member of his family whom he is bound to support, becomes chargeable to the parish. This class includes any person wandering abroad, begging in public places, or employing children for that purpose