A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money. — Prince Philip Duke Of Edinburgh 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
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait… — Pachomius the Great 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
When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. — Scipio Africanus 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
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Spare time, as I used to understand it, was the time left over from doing the necessary, unpleasant things, like correcting Sophomore… — Louise Rich Dickinson Copy Share Image
I started in my pro debut in a leisure centre in front of a couple of hundred people and I just worked… — Rocky Fielding Copy Share Image
