It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly… — Boy George 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
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
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. — Peg Bracken 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
With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss 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
Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
Because I work in comedy, I can't kick back and watch sitcoms as a form of leisure anymore. — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
My followers consistently engage with my content and rely on my recommendations for making decisions about where they travel or how they… — Shenaz Treasury Copy Share Image
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
