By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
You can go to doctors until the last cow has been placed in its shed. You can journey the earth in search… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca 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
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
The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts … We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Well, the world of entertainment and leisure is gigantic. When you combine it with all of the aspects of entertainment and leisure,… — Jensen Huang Copy Share Image
“Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company,… — Willaim Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do leisure reading but I don't get to do it like, at one in the morning. When I getting up at… — Susan Rice 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
A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
