The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience. — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind.… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading. — Ainsley Earhardt Copy Share Image
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
If passion is behind what you do doing it will make you happy even if it doesn't make you profit. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of… — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick 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
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted… — Jimmy Buffett 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
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Our strength with magic grants us as much leisure as we desire. We neither hunt nor farm, and, as a result, we… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature,… — Stig Dagerman Copy Share Image
How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers… — Raymond Cruz Copy Share Image
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which… — George Mac Donald Copy Share Image
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.” — Seneca 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
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its… — David Riesman 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
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than… — Mors Kochanski Copy Share Image
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
