Leisure Quotes - Page 14

• No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

  William Wilberforce

  Ignorance, Men, World

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

  Vernon Lee

  Mean, Defined, Felt

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

  John Dewey

  Doe, May, Matter

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.244, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

  C. Wright Mills

  Way, Making Money

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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, Becoming, Week

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

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• Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Physicians, Tuition

  Hippocrates (2007). “The Law”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

  Sean O'Casey

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

  Lewis Mumford

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Class

  "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

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• Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

  Isabel Paterson

  Jobs, Numbers, Saving

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.192, Transaction Publishers

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• If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Faith, Heart, Calvary

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.30, CLC Publications

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• The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

  Oliver DeMille

  Rome, Entertainment, Slave

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• God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

  Seamus Heaney

  God, Views, Order

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Poems, 1965-1975”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

  Henry James

  Oxford, Dignity, Sweetness

  Henry James (2011). “English Hours: A Portrait of a Country”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

  Bertrand Russell

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.441, Psychology Press

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• Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Society, Doe

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• Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

  Winston Churchill

  Brother, Watches, Marx Brothers

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• [My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

  Winston Churchill

  Dinner, Topics, Good Food

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• Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Library

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

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• I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Men, Taste

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• A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

  Winston Churchill

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Born, Feels

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Nice, White

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• English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

  Winston Churchill

  Inheritance, Literature, Treasure

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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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