Leisure Quotes
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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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We work to earn our leisure.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
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I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
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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.
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According to an English seaman named Aaron Thomas, who sailed to Newfoundland on the HMS Boston: If you come for their Feathers you do not give yourself the trouble of killing them, but lay hold of one and pluck the best of the Feathers. You then turn the poor Penguin adrift, with his skin half naked and torn off, to perish at his leisure.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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... and everybody will have what they never yet have had, a certain amount of that priceless boon, leisure-- leisure to sit down and look at themselves, and inquire what it is they really mean, and really want, and really intend to do with their lives.
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Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.
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What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
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The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
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The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.
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I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.
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leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
