Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. — William Taylor Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
We respect all of our competitors, and when I talk about our competitors, all of our competitors for entertainment time and leisure… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
I started in my pro debut in a leisure centre in front of a couple of hundred people and I just worked… — Rocky Fielding Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
“My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know… — Michel Quoist Copy Share Image
But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Both for society as well as for the individual there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. In order that… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the… — W.H. Davies Copy Share Image
I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us… — Robert Updegraff Copy Share Image
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation. — John Locke Copy Share Image
A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard. — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how… — Deborah Meaden Copy Share Image
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things;… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
![“Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.” quote by Farkas Bolyai](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5c5/farkas-bolyai-50405_certain_detest-it-a-certain-difficult-mathematic_3046062.jpg)
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