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When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy


Robert Browning

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DAG HAMMARSKJOLD As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure a...
DONNA LYNN HOPE Business is leisure when you find pleasure in it.
PETER ADEJIMI If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If you're taking up 4, 5, 6 foot of space, you're depriving someone else of their leisure time activ...
FAYE COTNER The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too b...
WILLIAM FAULKNER That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when a...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
SCIPIO AFRICANUS Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fa...
AGNES REPPLIER The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is b...
LINCOLN STEFFENS He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee li...
CHARLES DICKENS He not busy being born is busy dying.
BOB DYLAN Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER He who's not busy being born is busy dying
BOB DYLAN Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
BOB DYLAN War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which g...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - ...
GUNTER GRASS If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -...
GUNTHER GRASS If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -...
GUNTER GRASS If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - ...
GUNTHER GRASS Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done a...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The mental and physical reactions to what are perceived as labor and leisure are distinctively diffe...
JONATHAN CHEN A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with a...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure
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CHRIS CHAMBLISS My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of...
GARRISON KEILLOR The men who are really busiest have the most leisure for everything.
VIKRANT PARSAI Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man a...
C. NEIL STRAIT I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply a fear of the mob. The...
GEORGE ORWELL Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
CHAUCER The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure
J.K. ROWLING Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure sho...
C. NEIL STRAIT Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER I’m Busy as Hell not making any Money. It’s easy to be busy, the key is to be busy making money.
ROSS ELDER The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spend...
H. L. MENCKEN Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because th...
CHARLES PETERS At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
THE MISHNAH A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is...
GEORGE ORWELL He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
GILBERT WEST Does Grandpa love to babysit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormon...
HAL BOYLE 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 It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
MARILYNNE ROBINSON He is almost always available. No matter how busy he is, he takes time to listen and help.
DON MCCLURE I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try ...
FRED ARMISEN The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from w...
HENRI LEFEBVRE A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise.
ANNA LETITIA WARING Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as th...
SYLVIA PLATH Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
HILLEL Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disap...
ALLAN BLOOM He was a man too busy to flush toilets.
MONA SIMPSON I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd ...
JACK HANDY Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
PROVERB Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of al...
ANNE LAMOTT When God pushes you off a cliff, it is your faith He wants you to use as wings.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The busy man seems to have time for everything; the man who just thinks he is busy doesn’t have ti...
VIKRANT PARSAI The tunnel is the problem. For people to come and go at their leisure would be ideal.
MANUEL HERNANDEZ What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who do...
SAINT BASIL May is going to be a busy month (at Eastern).
JEANETTE CLARK Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
JOHN CLARKE Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a...
JOHN BURROUGHS Go away," I muffled out. "I'm busy."
"You look super busy."
"I'm busy willing multiple Peo...
SANTINO HASSELL Leisure is the condition of considering things in a celebrating spirit. . . . Leisure lives on af...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER No person is busy if he is willing to take out time !!!!
HRUSHIKESH DALAI Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
UNKNOWN He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
THOMAS FULLER Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Busy yourself with what is pleasing to Allah, or Satan will busy you with what displeases Him.
ABU AMEENAH BILAL PHILIPS Bobby is a very efficient worker. We keep him pretty busy. I'm a little surprised he had any time to...
GREG HOWARD Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-e...
JOSEF PIEPER It's dramatic monologues, almost like Robert Browning.
JOSEPH GRAVES Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing tha...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
OLIVER HERFORD The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is...
JOHN STUART MILL Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants...
ISABEL PATERSON Who acts in haste repents at leisure.
AESOP A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can...
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ROBERT BROWNING Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the...
ROBERT BROWNING And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
ROBERT BROWNING Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse...
ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
ROBERT BROWNING The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
ROBERT BROWNING Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.
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