Leisure Quotes


68 quotes:

"What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have, - leisure and a quiet mind"
Author: Thoreau Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"Cultivated leisure is the aim of man."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"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."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."
Author: Thoreau Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"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.''"
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Class Quotes Leisure Quotes
"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."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"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?"
Author: Thoreau Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature."
Author: Emerson Quotes Category: Nature Quotes Leisure Quotes
"Marry in haste, and repent at leisure."
Author: Proverb Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure."
Author: Byron Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes British Poet Quotes
"I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money"
Author: Philip Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness."
Author: Strait Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure."
Author: Polk Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes Leisure Quotes
"Even retirees who like retirement often want to keep active and involved. They want a blend of work and leisure, and that often means owning a manager-run unit."
Author: Hockett Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
Author: Repplier Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Leisure Quotes
"The tunnel is the problem. For people to come and go at their leisure would be ideal."
Author: Hernandez Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"The airlines' financial woes are not being caused by lack of leisure travelers,"
Author: Mitchell Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"When you like your work every day is a holiday."
Author: Tyger Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"I expect that leisure fares (for the major carriers) could go up 15 or 20 percent."
Author: Mitchell Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
"There seems to be a big division between competitive and leisure interests, because if those two groups disagree we won't get 60 percent [of the voters]."
Author: Hamilton Quotes Category: Leisure Quotes
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