If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but… — Arne Garborg Copy Share Image
It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take"… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. — George Zimmerman Copy Share Image
