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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Leisure

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?
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
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
If we don't come apart; we will come apart.
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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 exultation of the possible.
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.
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.
Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
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 basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
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.
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.
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 are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.
When you like your work every day is a holiday.

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