Rest: the sweet sauce of labor


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Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.
PLUTARCH
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
PLUTARCH
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John M...
JOHN MUIR
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capi...
BENJAMIN TUCKER
These five players create such sweet action. It's like soy sauce on rice.
MATT SIMMONS
Last winter we canned venison, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, chili sauce, tomato soup, turkey, catsu...
JANEL MAURER
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest
LORD BYRON
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Plutarch slides the sketchbook across to me.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
JAMES P. HOFFA
This garden has been a labor of love for my mom and the rest of our family,
LINDA HOPE
If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us
KIN HUBBARD
Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.
ANNE RICE
Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
And such in fact is the behaviour of the specialist. In politics, in art, in social usages, in the o...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
KIN HUBBARD
Goodnight sweet Prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest....-Claudia DeLioncourt
ANNE RICE
Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, beca...
DEAN KOONTZ
The sauce is the least healthy but you can serve it with a different type of sauce.
GREG FORTE
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond w...
JOHN KEBLE
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO
We probably did $80,000 in renovation work on a budget of $30,000. The rest was donated, in money an...
CAROLYN TINKLE
Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
WELLINGTON MARA
You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me... I'm dripping sauce.
FUTURE
Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themsel...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken...
ALICE B. TOKLAS
Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
HARRY DEAN STANTON
Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A crier of green sauce.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Alcohol boosts flavor. It's the reason we make penne with vodka sauce -- the vodka boosts the flavor...
GARY REGAN
We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo...
SUZANNE COLLINS
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
HENRY JAMES
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. [Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.]
DAVID TUVILL
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. [Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my ...
LISA LING
If you close six elementary schools, for example, you can take $1.2 million away from the deficit, a...
DAN BURNS
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time o...
DOUGLAS PAGELS
Hunger is the best sauce.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And t...
SUZANNE COLLINS
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
OTTO RANK
The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch fou...
PLUTARCH
For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not...
PLUTARCH
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the...
JOHN GAY
Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Ta...
HENRY MILLER
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the d...
KARL MARX
If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I h...
MARTIN YAN
Instead of the traditional deep-fryer, you get a smoke-flavored sauce.
JIM CAMPBELL
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Treat your time working like Hell is on your heels and your time off work like you're already in Hea...
COLIN GORMAN
We make our own sauce. We make our own rub. We make our own marinade. We make everything but the mea...
JAMES ROBBINS
Danger is sauce for prayers.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
pushing away his breakfast plate of mushrooms and moss sauce.
R.A. SALVATORE
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any la...
NORBERT WIENER
To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan ...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO
People love those for making sauce.
BARBARA CRUTCHLEY
Thinking of you, wherever you are
We pray for our sorrows to end,
and hope that our hearts...
SQUARE ENIX
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
ELSA MAXWELL
The best sauce is cooked in an old pan
AFRICAN PROVERB
We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a ...
HOLLY BLACK
You're too sweet for your own damn good.
C.L.STONE
The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And...
JOHN V. CHENEY
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...
HENRY GEORGE
A good steak sauce should enhance the flavor of the meat and not disguise it.
DAVID LAWRENCE
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.
MARK BUCHANAN
In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soiz...
THOMAS CAMPBELL
Erasers would taste good with this sauce.
JAN STERLING
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.
TODD STOCKER
The initial secret sauce to success is COURAGE AND BELIEF!
DR. SANJAY AGGARWAL
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do...
WILLIAM COBBETT
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do...
WILLIAM COBBETT
Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home, sweet home<...
HENRY VAN DYKE
Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
I tell you, all politics is apple sauce.
WILL ROGERS
Soy sauce is really a multi-purpose seasoning.
MARTIN YAN
I want every bottle I can get for the barbecue sauce.
JULIE JOHNSON
The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The purpose of labor is to learn;when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR
In any sauce you make, start with a concentration of flavors with great acidity. You then re-dilute ...
DANIEL BOULUD
We don't sauce anything until it's ready to serve.
DAVE FAVRE
I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
SUSAN VASS
Barilla came out with a new line of rigid pastas. They're supposed to hold the sauce better.
JOHN CHIAKULAS
In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cle...
STACY SCHIFF
This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't b...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
THOMAS TUSSER
Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.
ROBERT JORDAN
It has a real spicy tomato sauce. That makes the whole pizza.
SARAH FRAZIER
The main reason for women's declining labor-force participation rates over the last four years was t...
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