#leisure

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #leisure




They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.


Herman Melville


#leisure #talk #work

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.


Jeremy Paxman


#britain #depressing #find #i #leisure

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.


Logan P. Smith


#look #losing #may #out #soul

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.


Michael Strahan


#cars #golf #hobbies #include #leisure

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.


Paul Goodman


#been #fine #genius #leisure #people

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.


Gunther Grass


#age #busy #busyness #coincide #come

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.


Steve Earle


#leisure #passes #such #thing #workaholic

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.


William Lyon Phelps


#company #conversation #decide #development #good

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose


Winston Churchill


#leisure #recreation #sport #design

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.


George Orwell


#down-and-out-in-paris-and-london #education #fear #george-orwell #hierarchy