What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more,… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live…… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature,… — Stig Dagerman Copy Share Image
“For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor,… — Horace Copy Share Image
“At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We do more ready-to-wear and ath-leisure, things you would wear everyday. I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“... and everybody will have what they never yet have had, a certain amount of that priceless boon, leisure-- leisure to sit… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration… — Artemus Ward Copy Share Image
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure;… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do leisure reading but I don't get to do it like, at one in the morning. When I getting up at… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
