#leisure

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

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#basically #books #britain #classes #come

The busier we are the more leisure we have. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#leisure #more

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#grave #laziness #leisure #life #sleeping

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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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#intelligence #leisure #our #test

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

— James K. Polk

#duties #faithfully #his #leisure #performs

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#doing #fun #i #leisure #leisure time