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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue." (Burke, Edmund - Tolerance)

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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.


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