Diversions Quotes

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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. — Joseph Addison
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions… — Mary Wortley Montagu
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere… — Susanna Wesley
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. — Hal Borland
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could… — Albert Einstein
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. — Neil Postman
The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of… — Yoshida Kenko
There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on… — John Peel
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered. — Alice Hegan Rice
It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out… — Phyllis McGinley
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the… — John Quincy Adams
It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest… — Carl Sandburg
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it. — Mignon McLaughlin
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these… — Jeb Bush
Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions. — Ken Auletta
If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming… — Brian Tracy
We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness. — Jim Clemmer
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea… — Bill Watterson

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