Leisure Quotes - Page 28

• There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Choices, Politics

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• The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the non-material things that are inherently important: the work of mind and spirit that is gloriously and uniquely human, the work that no machine can ever do.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Mind, Important

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

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• For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

  Plutarch

  Men, Hands, Envy

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.450, Modern Library

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• Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Class, Community

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wise, Wisdom, Civilization

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from the tedium and fatigue of purely mechanical toil, for by this means he gains leisure for the thought necessary to working out his designs, and for the finer touches that the hand alone can give. So long as he remains master of his machinery it will serve him well, and his power of artistic expression will be freed rather than stifled by turning over to it work it is meant to do.

  Gustav Stickley

  Mean, Expression, Hands

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• How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

  John Keats

  Self, Mad, Imagination

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters of John Keats”

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• Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Vacuums, Philosopher

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.834, ShandonPress

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• ... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Men, Taste, He Man

  Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.75, Random House

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• Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil.
  Is not true leisure one with true toil?

  John Sullivan Dwight

  Sweet, Toil, Pleasure

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• Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Learning, Waiting, Mind

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• Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

  Plato

  Hero, Stories, Storytelling

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.259, Xist Publishing

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• What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

  Bertrand Russell

  Use, Remember, Conquest

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.22, Routledge

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• The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Skulls, Mind

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• I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Men, Museums

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• Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

  Witold Rybczynski

  Eye, Television Watching, Ears

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• I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships.

  Joy Behar

  Art, Book, Sunday

  "Joy Behar Discusses HLN Show: Wants Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sees Show As Sunday Times". Interview with Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

  Linda Gray

  Blessed, Trying, Bits

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• The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.

  Robert Updegraff

  Learning, Purpose, Hours

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• It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Creativity, Space, Imagination

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.150, Penguin

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• Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Suffering, Idlers, Action

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• The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

  Clement Greenberg

  Culture, Carrying On, Tradition

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Society, Wealth, Form

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.115

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• Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.

  Po Bronson

  Relaxation, Trying, Active

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• Small leisure have the poor for grief.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Grief, Poverty, Poor

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1875). “Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl”, p.44

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