#leisure

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

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#had #i #leisure #letter #long

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#britain #depressing #find #i #leisure

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#being #bother #cure #happy #leisure

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#being #enough #happy #leisure #miserable

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#here #leisure #love #minute #now

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. ↗

— Michael Strahan

#cars #golf #hobbies #include #leisure

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. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#been #fine #genius #leisure #people

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#domestic #earn #earning #hours #increased

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#age #busy #busyness #coincide #come