Leisure Quotes - Page 24

• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

  Victor Hugo

  Way, Philosopher, Spending Time

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hardest

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• Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

  Agnes Repplier

  People, Letters, Path

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon.

  Jeremy Collier

  Light, Culture, Hints

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.70

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• Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

  Jeremy Collier

  Body, Retribution, Passing

  Jeremy Collier (1720). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.”, p.31

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• nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything - you could call it the leisure of the theory class.

  Molly Ivins

  Summer, Vacation, Civilization

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.200, Vintage

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• Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Inward, Action

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.

  Arne Garborg

  Fun, Food, Joy

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• There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Education, Worthless

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• There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Philosophy, Mind, World

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.16, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Use, Know How, Knows

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Degrees, Spirit

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.124

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• Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Waste, Sin, Righteous

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

  Isabel Burton

  Thinking, Shining, Waiting

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• Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Taken, Party, Giving

  Naomi Mitchison (1990). “A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems”

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• We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sleep, Cutting, Practice

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• There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

  Aristotle

  Education, Views, Intellectual

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.214, Princeton University Press

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• Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

  Ovid

  Love, Bows, Break

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• Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

  Ovid

  Jupiter, Littles, Little Things

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• I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Time, Dark

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• Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Men, Occupation

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• Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Individuality, Deviance

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• You can go to doctors until the last cow has been placed in its shed. You can journey the earth in search of peace of mind. You can experiment with a dozen theories, hoping for a relief from worries, or the problems which beset you, but unless you learn to relax you will end up disappointed. Tension is a killer! Just relax and note the immediate effect. One of peace and ease of mind. One in which every organ of the body joins. In relaxation there is unity of mind, body and spirit.

  George Matthew Adams

  Journey, Doctors, Worry

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• Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Uncles, Writing, Achievement

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

  Bruce Lee

  Things In Life, Secret, Three

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