Saturday 20 April 2013

Leisure - Quotes

A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure. - The Beatles

For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all. - Kenneth Church Lamott

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. - J. G. Ballard

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler. - Henry Ford

It's not a man's working hours that are important – it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make. - Agatha Christie

Leisure is a state of mind. - Roy C. Wood & Bob Brotherton

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence. - Josef Pieper

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. - Zimmerman

Our leisure is the time the devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks, is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. - James Ellis

Take care of your leisure moments; do not suffer them to pass away in wanton idleness; you may make them seasons of great profit and gain. - J. W. Barker

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. - Evan Esar

The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour. - Thorstein Veblen

The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. - Elisabeth Elliot

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. - Bertrand Russell

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness. - George Bernard Shaw

To make good use of leisure is difficult. - Chilo

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. - Mason Cooley

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. - George Eastman

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