Quotes with leisure

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  • Agnes Repplier 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
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Martin Buber Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
    Martin Buber
    Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher (1878 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Seneca Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • C. Neil Strait Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Aldous Huxley Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Herford Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • George Robert Gissing Men are better companions before their success than after it, for they have so much more leisure.
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    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • C. Wright Mills Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Lord George Byron Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Aristotle Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bernard Malamud Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Laurence J. Peter The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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