Leisure Quotes - Page 3

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women...I like bridge.

We work to earn our leisure.

If we don't come apart; we will come apart.