Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. — Arthur Lacey Copy Share Image
Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? — John Sullivan Dwight Copy Share Image
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while. — Lauren Ambrose Copy Share Image
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how… — Deborah Meaden Copy Share Image
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard. — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly… — Boy George Copy Share Image
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
“...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
