Quotes by Leisure A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. Bill Bryson leisure age two The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal leisure letters long Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work. Bob Black leisure hopeless sake I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women...I like bridge. Bonar Law leisure care bridges When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. Boy George leisure london house Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. Branch Rickey leisure devil I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder... Brigid Schulte leisure eye thinking As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. Brigid Schulte leisure becoming people God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created. C. S. Lewis leisure lines attention if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure. C. S. Lewis leisure wit wish Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. C. Wright Mills leisure making-money way It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. Charles Baudelaire leisure love men At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle leisure roots civilization What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury. Chilon of Sparta leisure able secret The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved. Clement Greenberg carrying-on leisure culture Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved. Clement Greenberg carrying-on leisure culture The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. Cyril Connolly leisure class art In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Dalai Lama leisure sacrifice order Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. Dorothy Allison leisure quality girlfriend Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure. E. F. Schumacher leisure bliss joy «1234567891011»