Quotes by Leisure Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Henry David Thoreau haste-makes-waste leisure life There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. Henry Ward Beecher leisure civilization The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. Henry David Thoreau leisure integrity men Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly. Horace leisure wine sleep It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. Henry David Thoreau leisure would-be relaxation A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence. Henry David Thoreau leisure action men Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. James Ellis leisure devil way Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure. James Hillman leisure economics slave To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal Jan Struther immortal leisure one-day If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. Jane Austen kitties leisure men You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard. Jennifer James leisure speed want Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. Jeremy Collier retribution leisure body To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. Jimmy Buffett leisure reading today I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch. Joan Rivers ak-47 leisure fashion Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann idlers leisure suffering There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally. John Fowles leisure world Small leisure have the poor for grief. John Greenleaf Whittier leisure poverty grief He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation. John Locke recreation leisure use We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time. John Kenneth Galbraith leisure college lying A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all. John F. Kennedy leisure hardest «1234567891011»