all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick… — Mae West Copy Share Image
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
That's when you start to believe, people leave you hanging. That's when you are hurt, you learn. Do we really have to… — Myself Copy Share Image
Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes… The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He's rich," Jack muttered to Eliza, "or connected with rich persons." "Yes—the clothes, the coins ..." "All fakeable." "How do you know… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays,… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
...children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
