Leisure Quotes
"What we do during our working hours determines what we have;
what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."
- George Eastman
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"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
- Arnold Toynbee
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"Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of
contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a
child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall."
- Fulton J. Sheen
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"All intellectual improvement arises from leisure."
- Samuel Johnson
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"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."
- Thomas Hobbes
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"The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure."
- Irwin Edman
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"It is well to lie fallow for awhile."
- Martin Tupper
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"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
- Sydney J. Harris
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"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
- Aristotle
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"The true object of all human life is play.
Earth is a task garden; Heaven is a playground."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure."
- Herman Melville
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"If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul."
- Logan P. Smith
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"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a
rainy Sunday afternoon."
- Susan Ertz
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"Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle."
- E. V. Lucas
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"The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours."
- Arthur Lacey
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"A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare."
- William Henry Davies
