Leisure Quotes - Page 8

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.

Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.

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

We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal

Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data on shopping habits, leisure activities, voting histories, charity donations, and so on, in order to pinpoint likely supporters and the type of appeal most likely to win them over.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.