Quotes of Leisure - somelinesforyou

“ If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ”

- Lord Byron

“ If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain, the lazy one never. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Leisure is the mother of philosophy. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have — leisure and a quiet mind. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. ”

- Bible

“ Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognized them. ”

- Ann Landers

“ Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ 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. ”

- Neil C. Strait

“ Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. ”

- Irvine Welsh

“ I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. ”

- Scipio Africanus

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Neil C. Strait

“ The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. ”

- Aristotle

“ When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. ”

- Robert Browning

“ 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

“ He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. ”

- Oliver Herford

“ Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ”

- Jane Austen

“ A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. ”

- William Congreve
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