I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do. — Francine Jay Copy Share Image
There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,… — Charles Heiser Copy Share Image
With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in… — Aurangzeb Copy Share Image
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
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