Leisure Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, States, Good Humor

  Samuel Johnson (1990). “The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler”

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• We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Long, Giving, Diversity

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.4

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• I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

  Jonathan Swift

  Circles, World, Down And

  Jonathan Swift (1823). “The select works of Jonathan Swift ...: containing the whole of his poetical works ... embellished with engravings”, p.237

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• all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

  Mae West

  Sex, Taken, Love Is

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

  Agnes Repplier

  Passion, Writing, Heart

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• the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Intimate, Conversation

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.126, Wave Books

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• It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found out that I feel so much better when I take an hour a day, just to take care of me and love myself. It keeps me from feeling so put upon by everything and everybody and helps me get through the day. By taking my hour early in the morning, I feel like I get my love first and I get it when I am at my best.

  Byllye Avery

  Wise, Morning, Feelings

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• No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Country, Civilization, Class

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• I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

  Elsa Barker

  Lazy, Mind, Wish

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.83, 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 in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Musical, Theatre

  "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Patti LuPone Talks FAR AWAY PLACES, 54 Below, PARKER, Broadway, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

  Renzo Piano

  Islands, Years, Sailing

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• For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Adversity, Everyday, Vexation

  Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins

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