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Agnes Repplier
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, 1987
Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure [has become] entertainment.
Aristotle
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Arthur Lacey
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
Comte de Mirabeau
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
Edgar A. Shoaff
Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
Henry David Thoreau
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Logan P. Smith
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.
 
 
 
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