Leisure Quote by A.E. Housman

“I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.”

— Albert Camus

“I was born a gentleman, though I have been nothing but a poor travelling trader and hunter all my life. Whether I have remained…

— H. Rider Haggard

“If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”

— Oscar Wilde

“This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious…

— Marcus Aurelius

“All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to…

— Irvine Welsh

“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil.”

— Bohdi Sanders

“A man lay before me. He had sunk as low as any I had ever known. Then he had fought his way back and…

— Glen Cook

“that the ones who laugh the loudest and the most are usually the shallowest and the most foolish? And that the wisest are usually…

— Peter Kreeft

“For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it & sometimes break in two. I've known a few. You work twice as…

— Ray Bradbury

“It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly. And he is a poor self-swindler…

— Charlotte Brontë