toilsome QUOTES

1 " I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. "

― Alexis de Tocqueville

2 " Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight? "

― E.A. Bucchianeri , Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 1

3 " Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase,
And marvel men should quit their easy chair,
The toilsome way, and long, long leagues to trace,
Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air,
And life that bloated Ease can never hope to share. "

― Lord Byron , Childe Harold's Pilgrimage