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Leisure Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that…
- Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves…
- The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
- The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because…
- A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's…
- The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
More Leisure Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
- The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball
- Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
- People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. — Andrea Bocelli
- I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. — Rita Mae Brown
- To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett
- Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never… — Anthony Burgess
- Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. — Lord Byron
- To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca the Younger