Pastoral Resources

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

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

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

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.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

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

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

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.