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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

Phrynette Married · 1912

★ 6.9

Religious literature · Wisdom literature

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise.

175 BC

★ 3.6

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard · 1881

★ 3.6

Essay · Magazine

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Bertrand Russell

1932

★ 3.6

The thing which is the most outstanding and chiefly to be desired by all healthy and good and well-off persons, is leisure with honor.

Pro Sestio · 56 BC

★ 2.2

Philosophical literature

Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

Soren Kierkegaard

1843

★ 2.1

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Calvin and Hobbes · 1988

★ 2.1

I have done my plowing: I have sown my seed. Again I have time to sit and read my books.

427

★ 2.0

Play · History (play)

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 2.0

Religious literature

Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure.

1813

★ 1.9

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least.

Leonardo da Vinci

Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects · 1568

★ 1.3

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

George MacDonald

Wilfrid Cumbermede · 1872

★ 1.0