Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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