[Interest] Labor Room

Labor Day has been around for over 100 years. It is celebrated on the first Monday in September.

Today, for many of us, our Labor Day holiday is an "official" sign that summer is over, especially summer vacation for the kids. Many schools start right after Labor Day. (Some start a few days prior.) For others, Labor Day represents the last of having a long weekend and any attempt to enjoy outings with the family or have fun at the beach. Also, for many years, Labor Day was the fashion moment when you no longer were allowed to wear white (until Spring) without being judged as a fashion bozo. (BTW, the rule of not wearing white after Labor Day no longer exists.)

Unlike a lot of holidays, Labor Day is not based on any old folklore custom, any one person (alive or dead), any religion, race or brought over to America by immigrants from another country. Labor Day is a holiday set aside to honor all workers. Therefore, it really has no specific symbol or colors associated with it.
Quotes about Work

The thicker the hay; the easier mowed. -- Alaric the Goth

Tools were made, and born were hands,
Every farmer understands. --- Blake

Get work:
Be sure it is better than what you work to get. --- E.B. Browning

Absence of occupation is not rest.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. --- Cowper

It is better to wear out than rust out. --- Richard Cumberland

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. --- B.C. Forbes

The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired. --- B.C. Forbes

The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands. --- Franklin

If little labor, little our our gains;
Man's fortunes are according to his pains. --- Robert Herrick

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers; the woman goes to work softly with a cloth. --- O.W. Holmes

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. --- Elbert Hubbard

People who take pains never to do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
--- Elbert Hubbard

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away. --- Jerome K. Jerome

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. --- Lincoln

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. --- J.G. Pollard

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun. --- Christina Rossetti

There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.
--- Leslie M. Shaw

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. --- Mark Twain

Labor: One of the processes by which A acquires property for B. --- Ambrose Bierce

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish. --- Calvin Coolidge

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor. --- Ulysses S. Grant