Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. — Sylvia Townsend Warner 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
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
There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. — Max Weber 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
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
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
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
Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Go figure. For me, I might have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting,… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. — Ovid Copy Share Image
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