Top 764 Leisure Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.
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.
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.
For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers.
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.
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
Come, Time, and teach me many years,
I do not suffer in dream;
For now so strange do these things seem,
Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.
Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil.
Is not true leisure one with true toil?
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.
I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how that happened!
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"
I am finally a lady of leisure, and it suits me fine. For the first time in almost 10 decades, I don't have an agenda or a structure to my days.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.
Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.
When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.
Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very conservative financial strategy.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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.
He still works in the local leisure centre and he's the union rep and a shop steward. Dad is very grounded. He's not bumptious or brash.
My followers consistently engage with my content and rely on my recommendations for making decisions about where they travel or how they spend their leisure time. There's no space for trolls.
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
