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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?

Henry David Thoreau

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A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Oscar Wilde

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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Cicero

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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Henry David Thoreau

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He has hard work who has nothing to do.

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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

Natalie Clifford Barney

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If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

Vance Havner

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If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Ovid

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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

W. H. Auden

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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.

William Butler Yeats

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It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.

Michel de Montaigne

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Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.

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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin

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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.

George Bernard Shaw

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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.

Samuel Johnson

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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are

Raoul Vaneigem

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Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

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The busier we are the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Aristotle

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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

H. L. Mencken

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

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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.

Aristotle

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When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.

Leisure

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A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

He has hard work who has nothing to do.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

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.

It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.

Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

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.

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.

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.