Leisure Quotes - Page 7

• No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

  James K. Polk

  Patriotic, Political, President

  Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.261, Best Books on

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• What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

  Margaret Mead

  Feels, Stills, Happened

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Men, Important, Hours

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• I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Reading, Sketching

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

  Winston Churchill

  Reading, My Friends, Consistently

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Regret, Book, Teaching

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• We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of trades and professions by which to get your livelihood merely, was considered worthy of slaves only. But taking a hint from the word, I would go a step further and say, that it is not the man of wealth and leisure simply, though devoted to art, or science, or literature, who, in a true sense, is liberally educated, but only the earnest and free man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Art, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Swim, Awful, Used

  "What I see in the mirror: Mark Gatiss" by Mark Gatiss, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

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• I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Country, Home

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• He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

  John Locke

  Use, Recreation

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.236

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• Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

  Edward Young

  Pain, Wheels, Drag

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.15

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• The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

  Winston Churchill

  Team, Winning, Class

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• Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.

  Shawn Achor

  Real, Views, Waste

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• The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

  Winston Churchill

  Tired, Mind

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

  Winston Churchill

  Sunshine, Swimming, Hands

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Giving, Office

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.164

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• If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

  Don Marquis

  Lying, People, Would Be

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• I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.

  Jack Kirby

  Morning, Home, Night

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Literature, Fruit, Facts

  Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Study, Graves

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• There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

  Frances Harper

  Country, Perseverance, Artist

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (2009). “Iola Leroy (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

  Frances Harper

  Book, Successful, Needs

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1969). “Lola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted”, p.240, Library of Alexandria

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• I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane

  Hanshan

  Book, Thinking, Moon

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• Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Perfect, Solitude

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