leisure Quotes

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

The goal of working is to have free time.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in... ...

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and... ...

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the... ...