Activity Quote by Jacques Barzun

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort…

— Bertrand Russell

“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of he sort…

— Bertrand Russell

“Passion in man is generally co-existent with a hankering after the pleasures of the palate. And”

— Mahatma Gandhi

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

— Blaise Pascal

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

— Blaise Pascal

“He seemed to have lost the power of intellectual effort, now that the stimulus of pain had been removed. He was not bored, he…

— George Orwell

“A man engrossed in sensual pleasures may form a mistaken out look upon life and think that he enjoys life more than others do.…

— Mohammad Qutub

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change…

— Maria Edgeworth

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

— Joseph Addison