...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at… — Rachel Holmes 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
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not… — Seneca 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
Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“... and everybody will have what they never yet have had, a certain amount of that priceless boon, leisure-- leisure to sit… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure;… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration… — Artemus Ward Copy Share Image
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
