People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
Andrea Bocelli
PeopleBlindLeisureActivitiesVery
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
Jared Diamond
WorkTimeFunPeopleDoingLeisure
The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
LibraryTragedyRealTasteLeisure
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Scipio Africanus
AloneNeverLeisureThanLess
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.
James Madison
GoodReadingLeisureUpMustFill
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
PresentLongLeisureBecauseSimply
I travel quite a bit for both bobsled and leisure.
Lauren Gibbs
TravelLeisureQuiteBothBit
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli
ManTwoLeisureMeansIncreased
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
Garrison Keillor
FaithPrayerReligionGentleLeisure
I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.
Maxine Peake
TogetherMeLeisureOutWatchTake
'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
SuccessFreedomMoneyLuxuryLeisure
Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.
Alice Ripley
TimeLeisureTheaterBooth
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.
Thorstein Veblen
StrengthGoodCommunityNameLeisure
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
James K. Polk
PresidentLeisureWhoDutiesHis
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Aldous Huxley
TimeThinkWayHeroesLeisureSons
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Laurence J. Peter
BestIntelligenceTestLeisureOur
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin
TimeLeisureGainWellThouThy
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Dag Hammarskjold
BusyMoreLeisure
However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure.
Michael Frome
SlowDownLeisureNaturalWonders
The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.
Christo
WalkPeoplePlaceLeisureParkOnly
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
William Inge
SoulThoughtsColorLeisureDyed
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
MotherPhilosophyLeisure
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Herman Melville
WorkDignityTalkLeisure
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
GoodCultureWorldPayLeisurePaid
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