It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race,… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours… — Katharine Anthony Copy Share Image
Chasing new runway capacity to cater to ever more frequent leisure flights by Britain's wealthiest households isn't just iniquitous - it's bad… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very… — Stanley Ho Copy Share Image
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I was going to do something today but I haven't finished doing nothing from yesterday. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
