Leisure

(366 votes)   Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(253 votes)   We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(217 votes)   A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe?

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(195 votes)   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.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(191 votes)   Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(163 votes)   When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(156 votes)   It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(153 votes)   He has hard work who has nothing to do.

Proverbs

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(148 votes)   Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(141 votes)   If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(137 votes)   He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(133 votes)   When you like your work every day is a holiday.

Frank Tyger

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(122 votes)   It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(120 votes)   He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(113 votes)   Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.

C. Neil Strait

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