Quotes and Sayings About Leisure
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You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.
-- Jennifer James -
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.
-- Jeremy Collier -
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann -
Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?
-- John Sullivan Dwight -
Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things
-- John Walter Bratton -
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.
-- Josef Pieper -
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.
-- Josef Pieper -
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.
-- Kató Lomb -
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.
-- Linda Gray -
There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?
-- Louis O. Kelso -
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
-- Madame Roland -
Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.
-- Margaret Kennedy -
I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.
-- Mark Gatiss -
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
-- Mary Ritter Beard -
the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.
-- Mary Ruefle -
What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
-- Matthew Arnold -
My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.
-- Michael Strahan -
Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.
-- Monty Woolley -
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
-- Mortimer Adler -
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
-- Nan Fairbrother -
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
-- Oliver DeMille
