Hi Cheryl,
I so glad that you stopped by and I appreciate your kind Comments. Hope you & your family have a Wonderfully Happy Labor Day Weekend.
In honor of one of my favorite Forum Threads, your Famous Quotes and Their Authors, here's a few of my favorite Labor Day Quotes...
First, a little Labor Day Humor:
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
~ Doug Larson
In labor news, longshoremen walked off the piers today; rescue operations are continuing.
~ George Carlin
Then, some general Labor Day Quotes:
Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor
~ Bertrand Russell
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
~ Henry van Dyke
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
~ Adam Smith
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
~ Anatole France
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
~ Marc Chagall
Without labor nothing prospers.
~ Sophocles
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
~ Thomas Jefferson
God give me work, till my life shall end,
And life, till my work is done.
~ Epitaph of Winifred Holtby
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
~ Aristotle
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
~ John Locke
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
~ Thomas Browne, Sr.
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.
~ Bible
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
~ Mark Twain
And Finally, the reason we rest on Labor Day...
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
~ Douglas Pagels
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
~ Ovid
Have A Terrific Labor Day Weekend My Friend,
Phil