Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby. — Ronald Dunn Copy Share Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Chasing new runway capacity to cater to ever more frequent leisure flights by Britain's wealthiest households isn't just iniquitous - it's bad… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society,… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. — William Russell Copy Share Image
