#leisure

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#mother #philosophy

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

#around #because #been #broke #club

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. ↗

— James K. Polk

#duties #faithfully #his #leisure #performs

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#fabric #his #leisure #lives #man

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#biggest #biggest problem #how #leisure #leisure time

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#being #enough #happy #leisure #miserable

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#civilised #consequences #ennobling #eyes #itself

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows... ↗

— W.H. Davies

#poetry #time #w-h-davies #life

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#enjoying #entertaining #leisure #life #main

The busier we are the more leisure we have. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#leisure #more