Quotes with leisure

  • The end of labor is to gain leisure.
  • 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.
  • When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
  • Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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  • Oscar Wilde Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Butler Yeats It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • C. Neil Strait Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Thorstein Veblen 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
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Aristotle The end of labor is to gain leisure.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Johnson All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anthony Burgess 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
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Anthony Trollope 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
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Congreve Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Blaise Pascal I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Günter Grass 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.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Ovid In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • W. H. Auden It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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