In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you. — William Bernard Ziff Jr Copy Share Image
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain. — William Goffe Copy Share Image
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Leisure time is just one of the many benefits Americans are enjoying in the Trump economy. — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. — Patrick Murray Copy Share Image
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!" — Plutarch Copy Share Image
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I SPEND EVERY LEISURE TIME I HAVE JUST TO DAY DREAM, THERE IS NO CERTAIN REASON ACTUALLY JUST SIMPLY BECAUSE IT GIVES… — NO VOICE Copy Share Image
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. — Zhang Yimou Copy Share Image
I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business. — Linda Gray Copy Share Image
Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
