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#leisure

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #leisure




We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.


Gerald Brenan


#butterflies #closer #endure #few #few people

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.


Anthony Burgess


#comes #furnish #helps #leisure #listen

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.


Thorstein Veblen


#consumption #gentleman #goods #leisure #means

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.


Thorstein Veblen


#civilised #consequences #ennobling #eyes #itself

The busier we are the more leisure we have.


William Hazlitt


#leisure #more

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.


Natalie Clifford Barney


#how #inner #leisure #life #many

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.


Clive Bell


#class #crowd #leisure #mistake #wage-earners

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.


George Byron


#far #haste #hatred #leisure #longest

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


William Congreve


#haste #heels #leisure #married #pleasure

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






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