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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.


Benjamin Franklin

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
HILLEL The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
BERTRAND RUSSEL I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure ...
CHER WANG Chaos is the penance for leisure.
AMY TAN Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-kill...
BEN SHAPIRO For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of al...
ANNE LAMOTT I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
SCIPIO AFRICANUS Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
THE MISHNAH Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure sho...
C. NEIL STRAIT In their view, even leisure time had to be used to the full, so as to extract the maximum of enterta...
MICHAEL ENDE Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The mental and physical reactions to what are perceived as labor and leisure are distinctively diffe...
JONATHAN CHEN Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Time is either gold or dirt. It is dirt to the lazy, and gold to the diligent.
JOHN B. BEJO It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing tha...
JAMES A. GARFIELD There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
BRANCH RICKEY If we can enhance the experience, more people will spend more of their leisure time with us.
THOMAS O. STAGGS Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.
ANON. Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure
HENRY GREBER That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
THOMAS HOBBES We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure...
THEODORE ZELDIN If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
JARED DIAMOND Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
MARTIN BUBER Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
BRANCH RICKEY There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
ERIC FELLNER a unique piece of real estate for leisure time activities in America.
PAUL TAGLIABUE Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
OLIVER HERFORD Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from w...
HENRI LEFEBVRE Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
OSCAR WILDE She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what s...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic America...
ANNALEE NEWITZ The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure
J.K. ROWLING I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
JARED DIAMOND While television is primarily about our leisure time, the Internet is already transforming work, sch...
JEFFREY COLE The end of labor is to gain leisure.
ARISTOTLE The end of labor is to gain leisure
ARISTOTLE What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand ...
W.H. DAVIES We're usually breaking down film when the show is on. There's not much leisure time during the seaso...
MATT BALLARD If you're taking up 4, 5, 6 foot of space, you're depriving someone else of their leisure time activ...
FAYE COTNER Don’t say you have not enough time.Everyone have exactly the same numbers of minutes & hours per d...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Because of the year-round opportunities there for leisure, Colorado is very popular.
BOB WHITLEY Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will...
FRANKLIN BUCHANAN The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spend...
H. L. MENCKEN Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man a...
C. NEIL STRAIT For something where it?s a leisure draw, where there's no organization working collectively, like on...
BOB SCHULTZ Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
GEORGE ALLEN, SR. Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
GEORGE ALLEN Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
GEORGE ALLEN The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
ARISTOTLE The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
ARISTOTLE Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
UNKNOWN Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Idle people have the least leisure.
UNKNOWN The men who are really busiest have the most leisure for everything.
VIKRANT PARSAI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing...
RICK SANTELLI They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLE The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
CICERO A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may hav...
ARISTOTLE The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.
JACQUES CHARDONNE Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
JIM VASSAR Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEIN We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
GERALD BRENAN If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.
ANON. What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath th...
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shal...
BIBLE, ECCLESIASTICUS 38:24 Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
MIRIAM BEARD I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
PIERRE REVERDY We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have...
ARISTOTLE All intellectual improvement arises from leisure
SAMUEL JOHNSON He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
AMBROSE BIERCE Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs w...
FULTON J. SHEEN hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind i could call mine, that onl...
BRANCH RICKEY This is an important historical site which is now a leisure facility and I feel certain that there i...
BARRY DAVIES The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
WILLIAM CONGREVE The trend for leisure fares has been upward all summer (averaging 16% more than a year ago), and it'...
BOB HARRELL Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken
OVID I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost co...
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