The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us… — Agnes Repplier 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
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material… — Herbert Hoover 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
O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Go figure. For me, I might have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected… — Charles Bukowski 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
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
I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell 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
I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a closer and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy… — Owen Feltham 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
Hey I'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind I could call mine,… — Thomas Mann 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
Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and… — Guo Guangchang Copy Share Image
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given… — C. S. Lewis 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
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
