At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so… — William Blake Copy Share Image
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money… — John Piper Copy Share Image
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard. — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions… — Sonny Vaccaro Copy Share Image
Night buses serve not only the leisure economy- pubs, bars, clubs, theatres and concerts- but also hundreds of thousands of night workers. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!" — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This place is just too frickin precious," the cop said, eyeing a guy dressed in a hot pink leisure suit with makeup… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours. — Monty Woolley Copy Share Image
Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
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