The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all.” — Ann Lamott 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
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder... — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
