Leisure Quotes - Page 7

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.

Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public.

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

Who has more leisure than a worm?

I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.