I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. — Scipio Africanus Copy Share Image
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
This place is just too frickin precious," the cop said, eyeing a guy dressed in a hot pink leisure suit with makeup… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a closer and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in… — Livy Copy Share Image
Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. — Severus Snape Copy Share Image
