News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work… — Eric Hoffer 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
We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though… — Henry Latham Doherty Copy Share Image
Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
