#leisure

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. ↗

— Scipio Africanus

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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience. ↗

— Susan Maushart

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Thorstein Veblen

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

— Thorstein Veblen

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What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows... ↗

— W.H. Davies

#poetry #time #w-h-davies #life

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

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The busier we are the more leisure we have. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#leisure #more

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

— Clive Bell

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