Aforismi
sul Tempo Libero 1
Leisure time is
that five or six hours when you sleep at night. - George
Allen
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
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent
man will obtain, but the lazy man never. - Benjamin
Franklin
And leave us leisure to be good.- Thomas
Gray, Hymn--Adversity (sc. 3)
Leisure is the mother of philosophy. - Thomas
Hobbes
No blessed leisure for Love or Hope,
But only time for Grief. - Thomas
Hood, Song of the Shirt
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher,
a good way of spending time. - Victor
Hugo
Retired Leisure
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. - John
Milton, Il Penseroso (l. 49)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization,
and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand
Arthur William Russell
Mend when thou canst, be better at thy leisure;
I can be patient, I can stay with Regan,
I and my hundred knights. - William
Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether
you are happy or not. The cure for its occupation.
- George
Bernard Shaw, Parents and Children
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the
bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it
therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. - Thorstein
Veblen
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels,
How heavily we drag the load of life!
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain,
It makes us wander, wander earth
around
To fly that tyrant,
thought. - Edward
Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 125)
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