Pastoral Resources

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

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.

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.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.