The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“A hobby is labor disguising itself as leisure. It is extremely destructive to the boundaries of private life.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race,… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the… — Anna Laetitia Waring Copy Share Image
Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
He carried a pipe in his left hand, and as he examined Will at his leisure, he exhaled sending a cloud of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story… — Mark Pendergrast Copy Share Image
“Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Key to the success of ugly leisure is that it keeps those who participate in it in the dark about how little… — Paul Munson & Joshua Farris Drake Copy Share Image
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I was going to do something today but I haven't finished doing nothing from yesterday. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I never have such luxury of leisure time. But whenever I get some time, I catch up on watching movies, keep going… — Rithvik Dhanjani Copy Share Image
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money. — Prince Philip Duke Of Edinburgh Copy Share Image
Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very… — Stanley Ho Copy Share Image
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
“We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image