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| A good handicraft has a golden foundation. Dutch. | 1 |
| A good head and industrious hand are worth gold in any land. German. | 2 |
| A good laborer is better than a bad priest. German. | 3 |
| A good trade will carry farther than a thousand florins. German. | 4 |
| A grain of rice, a thread of hemp, are the fruit of the sweat of the poor. Chinese. | 5 |
| A man must live by his trade. | 6 |
| A man of many trades begs his bread on Sundays. | 7 |
| A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. Franklin. | 8 |
| A trade is an estate for life. Turkish. | 9 |
| Adam got a hoe and Eve got a spinning-wheel and thence came all the nobles. Danish. | 10 |
| All for each and each for all. Maxim of Knights of Labor. | 11 |
| All the grains of rice that are in the soup have been matured by the sweat of the laborer. Chinese. | 12 |
| Another man’s trade costs money. Portuguese. | 13 |
| As the labor, so the pay. | 14 |
| Be the first in the field and the last to the couch. Chinese. | 15 |
| Blessing goes with labor. Turkish. | 16 |
| Bodily labor earns not much. | 17 |
| By labor comes wealth. Yarubas (Africa). | 18 |
| By labor fire is got out of a stone. Dutch. | 19 |
| Every laborer is worthy of his hire. German. | 20 |
| Finished labors are pleasant. | 21 |
For just experience tells in every soil,
That those who think must govern those who toil. Pope. | 22 |
| From labor there shall come forth rest. Longfellow. | 23 |
| He that by the plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive. Franklin. | 24 |
| He that hath some land must have some labor. | 25 |
| He that labors and thrives spins gold. | 26 |
| He that labors is tempted by one devil and he that is idle by a thousand. Italian. | 27 |
| Honest labor bears a lovely face. Thos. Dekker. | 28 |
| In all labor there is profit. Bible. | 29 |
| It is hard to labor with an empty belly. Danish. | 30 |
| Labor conquers all things. Virgil. | 31 |
| Labor has a bitter root but a sweet taste. Danish. | 32 |
| Labor, if it were not necessary to the existence, would be indispensable to the happiness of man. Dr. Johnson. | 33 |
| Labor is itself a pleasure. Lucretius. | 34 |
| Labor is only awarded the lowest. | 35 |
| Labor is preferable to idleness as brightness to rust. Plato. | 36 |
| Labor is the best sauce. Latin. | 37 |
Labor itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong. F. W. Faben. | 38 |
| Labor makes bread out of a stone. German. | 39 |
| Labor not to be rich. Bible. | 40 |
| Labor rids us of three great evils: tediousness, vice and poverty. French. | 41 |
| Labor warms, sloth harms. | 42 |
| Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven. Carlyle. | 43 |
| Labor without luck helps not. German. | 44 |
| Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. William Penn. | 45 |
| Many a man labors for the day he will never live to see. Danish. | 46 |
| No man can eat anything sweeter in this world than what is acquired by his own labor. Turkish Spy. | 47 |
| Past labor is pleasant. | 48 |
| Reward sweetens labor. Dutch. | 49 |
Such hath it been—shall be—beneath the sun,
The many still must labor for the one. Byron. | 50 |
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| The gods sell everything for labor. | 51 |
| The labor we delight in physics pain. Shakespeare. | 52 |
| The laborer is worthy of his hire. New Testament. | 53 |
| The palm is not gained without the dust of labor. Latin. | 54 |
| The sleep of the laboring man is sweet whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Bible. | 55 |
| The three things most difficult are,—to keep a secret, to forget an injury and to make good use of labor. Chilo. | 56 |
| Those who labor with their minds rule; those who labor with their bodies are ruled. Chinese. | 57 |
| To labor is the lot of man below. Homer. | 58 |
| What is done by hand-labor is eaten with pleasure. Chinese. | 59 |
| Without labor, no good thing. German. | 60 |
| Without labor there was no ease, no rest. Carlyle. | 61 |
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