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Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular… — Paul Zane Pilzer
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . .… — Salvador de Madariaga
But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through… — Alan Loy McGinnis
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. — KatÃ³ Lomb
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own). — Richard Louv
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham
Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he… — Robert Baden-Powell
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca the Younger
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau
Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared… — Pope Benedict XVI
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. — Clive Bell
It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the… — Spider Robinson
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. — Benjamin Franklin
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show,… — Adam Weishaupt
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent… — Eric Hoffer
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and… — Irvine Welsh
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. — Jared Diamond
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family,… — Jerry Brown
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to… — Gunter Grass
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance. — Ogden Nash
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable. — Lin Yutang
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. — Francis Quarles
Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not… — Henry Latham Doherty
In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you. — Unknown Author

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