I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because the mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves.
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
Leisure for men of business, and business for men of leisure, would cure many complaints.
The whole thing was prejudiced from the beginning it was all backward. They look at us like we were created to serve at the leisure and pleasure of the commission and I dispute that. It was the people that put us in there. They wanted an independent voice
Business travelers make the decisions based on schedule, leisure travelers do it based on price. We think we can be very competitive in both areas.
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.
Paradoxically, perhaps, there seems nothing enduring to be gained in terms of meaningful life change purely from leisure, from having a great time. If you or I could redesign the world we'd certainly do it very differently, so that every time we took a magic vacation at some tropical paradise we would return full of more wisdom than the World Encyclopedia of Philosophical Quotations. Until then, we are well advised to accept the reality that the great lessons in life usually come to us through some form of extreme hardship.
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.,,, This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
With half of Broadway audiences coming from outside the New York area and Broadway being the No. 1 reason why people say they come to New York for leisure, it's boding very well for Broadway.
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
I went to the city for themes and to enrich my art;
There married the banker's daughter,
And later became president of the bank-
Always looking forward to some leisure
To write an epic novel of the war.
At leisure is the Soul
That gets a Staggering Blow --
The Width of Life -- before it spreads
Without a thing to do --
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Have ye leisure, comfort, calm,
Shelter, food, love's gentle balm?
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