Quotes by Leisure The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state. George Gilder leisure benefits america It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of. George MacDonald leisure running way When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You're going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do. George Saunders leisure cases writing Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. George Eliot leisure vacuums believe Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. Gilbert K. Chesterton leisure Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity. Guillermo Cabrera Infante cuban-cigars leisure world Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. Guy Debord leisure emptiness justified Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. Guy Debord tourism leisure circulation He hath no leisure who useth it not. George Herbert leisure There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension. Hal Borland leisure pace matter We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. leisure work motivational If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure. H. G. Wells leisure glimpse world Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit. Harriet Martineau leisure degrees men To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions. Gilbert K. Chesterton leisure progress action 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. Henry Theodore Tuckerman leisure wealth society Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. Henry James leisure dignity oxford The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. Henry David Thoreau leisure education retirement Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure. Hillel the Elder leisure procrastination may Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. Hippocrates leisure physicians medicine A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor. Henry David Thoreau leisure clergymen pursuit «1234567891011»