Leisure Time Quotes

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  The end of labor is to gain leisure.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Work, Tunnels

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• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

  W. H. Davies

  Life, Stress, Humor

  Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"

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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, Leisure

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Lazy, Laziness

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• Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Leisure, Diligent

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• The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

  Arthur Lacey

  Time, Real, Leisure

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Liberty, Leisure

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.250

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• Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

  Guy Debord

  Leisure, Emptiness, Justified

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Work, People, Use

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.265, Da Capo Press

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

  Steve Ballmer

  Successful, Technology, People

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• The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Nature, Gentle Touch

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

  Brigid Schulte

  People, Leisure, Becoming

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time”, p.32, Macmillan

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• I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

  Jared Diamond

  Fun, People, Literature

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• We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lying, College, Leisure

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

  Peg Bracken

  People, Use, Leisure

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

  Branch Rickey

  Leisure Activities, Use, Problem

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• In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

  Dalai Lama

  Sacrifice, Order, Leisure

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Book, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Add, Done, Leisure

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• Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

  Karl Marx

  Home, Doe, Leisure

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, John E. Elliott (1981). “Marx and Engels on economics, politics, and society: essential readings with editorial commentary”

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• It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

  W. H. Auden

  Past, Cheerful, Majority

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• Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Haste Makes Waste, Leisure

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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