There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time. — Cher Wang Copy Share Image
I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder. — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
Progress starts with envisioning a new (yet old) lifestyle with the home as central to all aspects of life-work and leisure, food… — Jules Dervaes Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We simply do not have time as we move from one meeting to the next to have hours to peruse leisure websites… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image