Leisure Quotes - Page 4

• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Crazy, Military, War

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• [A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

  Allan Bloom

  Men, Taste, Serious

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• To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Reading, Today, Default

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Long, Letters, Brevity

  Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal”, p.339

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• Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Love, Happiness, Music

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• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

  Agnes Repplier

  Life, Men, Self

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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• Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Retirement, Peace

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

  William Congreve

  Marriage, Grief, High Heels

  "The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices".

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• I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

  Johnny Depp

  White, Red, Taste

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• If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

  Steve Earle

  Workaholic, Ifs

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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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• People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

  Madame Roland

  Work, People, Forever

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• Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.

  Mary McCarthy

  Sports, Art, Hunting

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

  Hugh Jackman

  War, Coffee, Hard Work

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• Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Unemployment, Diminish

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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, Activity

  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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• The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

  Patrick Murray

  Leisure Activities, Computer, Internet

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• Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Three, Rewards

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

  Ovid

  Temptation, Bows, Cupid

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• Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Effort, Joy

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• Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

  Isadora Duncan

  One Direction, People, Purpose

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

  Alan Bennett

  Work, Mean, Purpose

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.268, Faber & Faber

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• What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

  Samuel Gompers

  Beautiful, Revenge, Book

  The Shoe workers' Journal, Volume 16‎ (p. 4), 1915.

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• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

  Irwin Edman

  Work, Civilization, Quality

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• We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

  John Dryden

  Iron, Hot, May

  'Aeneis' (1697) dedication

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