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Leisure Quotes by Thorstein Veblen
- In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
- The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his…
- Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and…
- The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility…
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