#lei

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#doing #lazy #leisure #never #obtain

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

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. ↗

— Boy George

#around #because #been #broke #club

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#england #felt #found #i #pleistocene

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#early #europe #had #hominid #i

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#basin #hypothesis #i #indications #long

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#gone with the wind #happen #how #know #leigh

After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#favourite #instance #leia #my own #own

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. ↗

— Willie Mays

#also #baseball #business #combat #disguised

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#biggest #biggest thrill #ever #had #i