Best Leisure Sayings
505 Leisure quotes by 348 unique authors
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Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit…
— Richard Baxter
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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far…
— Tryon Edwards
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The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.
— Patrick Murray
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For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace…
— George Orwell
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The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color…
— William Ralph Inge
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
— William Taylor
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According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer…
— Jacques Ellul
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No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.
— Thomas Hood
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Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of…
— Oswald Chambers
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This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for…
— Shana Alexander
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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to…
— John Woolman
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George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother…
— Dale Carnegie
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
— Jack Nicholson
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I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary…
— Sean Bean
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My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.
— Michael Strahan
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Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference…
— Edouard Boubat
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Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.
— Monty Woolley
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the…
— Edward Abbey
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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
— Aristotle
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A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague…
— George Orwell
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If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
— John Dryden
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There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego…
— Walter Benjamin
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Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work…
— Karl Marx
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There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in…
— Unknown Author
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