Quotes on the topic: Leisure


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


I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.


The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.


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


The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.


The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.


Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.


How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.


The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.


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


What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.


Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.


I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-changing, but it's a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at my leisure, someday.


The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.


The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.


It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.


To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.


The end of labor is to gain leisure.


People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.


Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.