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The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
Oct 1, 2025
The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.
Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF SPACE in the historical past, many of the other stories juxtapose fact-both historical and scientific-with narration to an engaging effect, one that distinguishes the voice of this new writer.
In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
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
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
well that's convenient, i guess blessings are easier to come by than i thought. maybe i should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after labor day
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Work hard at work worth doing.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.
The harder I work the more I live.
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.