Leisure Quotes - Page 29

• Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

  Plutarch

  Should, Elders

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". Book by Plutarch. "32 Dionysius". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.

  Josef Pieper

  Mad, Intuition, Unrest

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• Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

  Anne Bronte

  Book, Reading, Occupation

  Anne Bronte (2012). “Agnes Grey”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• This place is just too frickin precious," the cop said, eyeing a guy dressed in a hot pink leisure suit with makeup to match. "Give me rednecks and home-grown beer any day of the week over this X-culture bullshit.

  J.R. Ward

  Home, Beer, Redneck

  J. R. Ward (2010). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.285, Hachette UK

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• What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Secret, Able, Bears

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• I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships.

  Joy Behar

  Art, Book, Sunday

  "Joy Behar Discusses HLN Show: Wants Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sees Show As Sunday Times". Interview with Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2009.

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• ... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reading, Talking

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

  Linda Gray

  Blessed, Trying, Bits

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• Small leisure have the poor for grief.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Grief, Poverty, Poor

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1875). “Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl”, p.44

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• Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.

  Po Bronson

  Relaxation, Trying, Active

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• Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Society, Wealth, Form

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.115

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• I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

  Steve Ballmer

  Successful, Technology, People

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