Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure. — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder... — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Because I work in comedy, I can't kick back and watch sitcoms as a form of leisure anymore. — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. — Plato Copy Share Image
Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“What is a hobby anyway? Where is the line of demarcation between hobbies and ordinary normal pursuits? I have been unable to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He… — John Stott Copy Share Image
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
