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505 Leisure quotes by 348 unique authors

Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then… — Salvador de Madariaga
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. — Alexander Lowen
The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. — Robin Sharma
Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who… — Russell L. Ackoff
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may… — William Wilberforce
What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. — Vernon Lee
Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken — Ovid
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers… — Pachomius the Great
It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in… — John Dewey
Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. — C. Wright Mills
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for… — Hippocrates
Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature,… — Sean O'Casey
A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual… — Lewis Mumford
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. — Isabel Paterson
If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure… — Amy Carmichael
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Oliver DeMille
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the… — Michael Gungor
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. — Henry James
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average… — Bertrand Russell
Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers. — Winston Churchill
[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic -… — Winston Churchill
Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library. — Winston Churchill
I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything. — Winston Churchill
A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted. — Winston Churchill

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