Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“I have never sought to displease; I merely seek pleasure and avoid the pain it causes those who work to produce it.… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
“The tremendous leisure industry that has arisen in the last few generations has been designed to help fill free time with enjoyable… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation… — Patricia Penton Leimbach Copy Share Image
Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of… — Jonathan Swift 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
“Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company,… — Willaim Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Well, the world of entertainment and leisure is gigantic. When you combine it with all of the aspects of entertainment and leisure,… — Jensen Huang Copy Share Image
The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts … We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image