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If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.
Ronald Dunn
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
Natalie Clifford Barney
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
Raoul Vaneigem
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
Source Unknown
One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.
He has hard work who has nothing to do.
Proverb
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
When you like your work every day is a holiday.
Frank Tyger
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Francis Quarles
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.
Bible
When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.
Yiddish Proverb
It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.
Michel de Montaigne
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
Pythagoras