Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. — John Milton Copy Share Image
It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,… — Charles Heiser Copy Share Image
What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in… — Livy Copy Share Image
Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image