Leisure Quotes - Page 13

• The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Satisfaction In Life, Class

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• Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his labor would be depreciated in the market.
  He has no time to be anything but a machine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men, Would Be

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.12

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• Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Paper, Slavery, Might

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Action, Calm

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.176

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• Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

  Mason Cooley

  Weakness

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• I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."

  Kenneth Tynan

  Indulge In, Luxury, Despair

  "Conference at Edinburgh (1963)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 146, 1967.

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• He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Waiting, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, Work, Women

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• Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mother, Philosophy, Commonwealth

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.260, Hackett Publishing

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• I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sitting, Okay, Absolutely Nothing

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• God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

  Seamus Heaney

  God, Views, Order

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Poems, 1965-1975”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

  Mason Cooley

  Haste, Repent, Publication

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• To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

  Honore de Balzac

  Live Life, Passion, Eye

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• I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

  Cher Wang

  Ideas, Imagination, Use

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• Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

  Christopher McDougall

  Taken, Technology, Hunters

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.243, Profile Books

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• It is well to lie fallow for a while.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Advice, Vacancy

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.71

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• The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Men, Ideas

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.66, Bantam

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• The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

  William Hazlitt

  Retirement, Passion, Heart

  William Hazlitt (1918). “Twenty-two Essays of William Hazlitt”

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• The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.

  Mors Kochanski

  Fire, Survival, Important

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• All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Men, Law

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mad, Effort, World

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• If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Kitties, Mary

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.848, Google Publishing

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• I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

  Ben Goldacre

  Leisure Activities, Talking, People

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.

  Jerry Falwell

  God, Sports, Christian

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• Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.

  Charles Heiser

  Garden, Animal, Agriculture

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