Manual Labour Quotes

#1. Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? ... Manual labour.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. The way I see it, people are working hard. They're working their fingers to the bone. Or am I looking at things wrong?
That's not hard work. It's just manual labour.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

James Spader

#5. I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Jacqueline Bisset

#6. It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.

Oscar Wilde

#8. That's not hard work. It's just manual labour," Nagasawa said with finality. "The "hard work' I'm talking about is more self-directed and purposeful.

Haruki Murakami

#9. I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

Pablo Casals

#10. Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. He had probably never thought about the difference between hard work and manual labour, either.

Haruki Murakami

#12. As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

Karl Marx

#13. Mary sat, quiet and attentive and blank. It wasn't like talking to a dumb seventh-grader, it was like talking to a pancake.

Robert B. Parker

#14. And now I wonder which animal of us will eat the other first physically and last spiritually? We consume animals and then one of us consumes the other, my love.

Charles Bukowski

#15. Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

Albert Einstein

#16. Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

Frank Harris

#17. Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

George Gordon Byron

#18. The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

Chris Van Allsburg

#19. Joy is the most Magnetic Force in the Universe!

Danielle LaPorte

#20. As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure.

Daniel J. Levitin

#21. A man may be poor; he may have nothing at all except his labour to sell; he may be a manual worker for a weekly wage, but in a free commonwealth he must enjoy as good a right as any lord, or prelate, or capitalist in the country to the integrity of his own political convictions.

Winston S. Churchill