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Leisure Quotes
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. - Blaise Pascal Quotes
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. - Dean Inge Quotes
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. - Mortimer Adler Quotes
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. - Gunther Grass Quotes
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. - Arnold J Toynbee Quotes
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. - Branch Rickey Quotes
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. - Anthony Trollope Quotes
The busier we are the more leisure we have. - William Hazlitt Quotes
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised mens eyes. - Thorstein Veblen Quotes
The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park. - Christo Quotes
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. - Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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 Quotes
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. - Benjamin Franklin Quotes
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a mans life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. - Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. - George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I dont carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think its too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. - Sean Bean Quotes
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 so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. - Thorstein Veblen Quotes
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class. - Clive Bell Quotes
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. - Branch Rickey Quotes
Leisure is the mother of philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. - Johnny Depp Quotes
To describe my scarce leisure time in todays terms, I always default to reading. - Jimmy Buffett Quotes
Basically, particularly in Britain, its a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Id rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. - William Lyon Phelps Quotes
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure. - The Mishnah Quotes
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. - W N Taylor Quotes
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. - Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. - Anthony Burgess Quotes
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