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" Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys. "

Brian Sutton-Smith

" All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. "

" Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. "

" Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. "

" Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. "

" Both business and leisure travellers are enjoying unprecedented levels of choice. "

" Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. "

Thorstein Veblen

" Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! "

Swami Sivananda

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

" Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. "

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

" He hath no leisure who useth it not. "

" However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure. "

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

" How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. "

" I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-changing, but it's a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at my leisure, someday. "

Adam-Troy Castro

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

" If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it. "

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

" If we can enhance the experience, more people will spend more of their leisure time with us. "

Thomas O. Staggs

" If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. "

Logan Pearsall Smith

" I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort. "

Geraldine McCaughrean

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

Scipio Africanus

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

Benjamin Disraeli

" In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. "

" I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion. "

Zoe Foster Blake

" 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. "

" It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. "

" I travel quite a bit for both bobsled and leisure. "

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