Book Quote by William Cowper

“Other than involving yourself with ungrateful vegetable matter, colour, vigour and fascination can be imparted into a small outdoor space by several other methods.…

— Vic Darkwood Gustav Temple

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

— Anonymous

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only…

— Honore de Balzac

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

— John Milton

“He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world,…

— Charles Dickens

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…

— Thorstein Veblen

... in the fierce competition ofmodern society the only class left in the country possessing leisure is that of women supported in easy circumstances…

— Mrs H O Ward

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the…

— Charles Dickens

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a…

— Henry David Thoreau

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

“She remembered how, as a young man, she had insisted that women must be obedient, chaste, scented, and exquisitely apparelled. "Now I shall have…

— Virginia Woolf