Leisure Quotes - Page 8

• News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ambition, Intelligent, Gossip

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• ... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Work, Thinking, Way

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• The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wish, Would Be, Should

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Reflection, Clouds, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1914). “Short studies on great subjects”

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• Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God's power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Majestic, Century

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• I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Sacrifice

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Ecosystems, Style, Environmental

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• In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Years, Want, Problem

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman, Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

  Sallust

  Grief, Men, Hardship

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• The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need.

  Jay Leno

  Sports, Past, White

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• If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blood, Europe, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

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• Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

  George Zimmerman

  Perfect, Solitude, Earth

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• The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance.

  Paul Goodman

  Running, Long, Important

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.155, New York Review of Books

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• English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

  Winston Churchill

  Inheritance, Literature, Treasure

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• Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

  Henry James

  Oxford, Dignity, Sweetness

  Henry James (2011). “English Hours: A Portrait of a Country”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

  Oliver DeMille

  Rome, Entertainment, Slave

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• If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Faith, Heart, Calvary

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.30, CLC Publications

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• Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

  Isabel Paterson

  Jobs, Numbers, Saving

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.192, Transaction Publishers

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• A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

  Lewis Mumford

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Class

  "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

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• Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

  Sean O'Casey

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Physicians, Tuition

  Hippocrates (2007). “The Law”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

  Brigid Schulte

  People, Becoming, Week

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

  C. Wright Mills

  Way, Making Money

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• Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

  Alexander Lowen

  Sex, Physicians, Way

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