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~ All intellectual improvement arises from leisure ~

Samuel Johnson

~ We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. ~

Aristotle

~ Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ~

Thomas Hobbes

~ Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. ~

Branch Rickey

~ All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~

John Gunther

~ He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. ~

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

~ Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. ~

Gene Perret

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

Logan P. Smith

~ He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ 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

~ The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. ~

Arnold Toynbee

~ Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. ~

William Congreve

~ The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure ~

Aristotle

~ What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures ~

Samuel Gompers

~ Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams ~

Roger Kahn

~ Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game ~

Edward Abbey

~ Leisure is the mother of Philosophy ~

Thomas Hobbes

~ And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace ~

Aristotle

~ Leisure is the mother of philosophy. ~

Thomas Hobbes

~ Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. ~

Mason Cooley

~ All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~

John Gunther

~ A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. ~

Dag Hammarskjold

~ The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ All wine associations are with occasions when people are at their best; with relaxation, contentment, leisurely meals, and the free flow of ideas. ~

Hugh Johnson

~ Everyone understands that water is essential to life. But many are only just now beginning to grasp how essential it is to everything in life ñ food, energy, transportation, nature, leisure, identity, culture, social norms, and virtually all the products used on a daily basis. ~

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

~ The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. ~

Henry David Thoreau

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