What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows...
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W.H. Davies
What is this life so full of care, We don't have time to stand and stare.
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W.H. Davies
For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a thought unfurls, figures of speech budding and blossoming, articulation drifting like spent petals onto the dark table we all once gathered around to...
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Patricia Hampl
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence...
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Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.
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J.G. Ballard
More Quotes By Thomas Hobbes
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
Hell is truth seen too late.
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark
