Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce Tags: #Retirement, #Leisure, #Wish, #AmbroseBierce, #American, #JournalistMini who’s who: Ambrose Bierce : American Journalist Born:...
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. —...
People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that. — Robert Fogel Tags: #Time, #Leisure, #Richer, #RobertFogel,...
I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. — Scipio Africanus Tags: #Leisure, #Less, #ScipioAfricanus, #Roman, #SoldierMini who’s who: Scipio Africanus : Roman Soldier Born: 236 BC Died: 183...
