leisure

• “-- 'And surely,' he continues, 'if the purpose be in good earnest, _not to write at leisure that which men may read at leisure_' -- note it -- that which men may read at leisure -- 'but really to”

  The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded

• “On all sides they trip along, buoyed up by animal spirits, and seemingly so void of care that often, when I am walking on the Boulevards, it occurs to me that they alone understand the full import of the term leisure; and they trifle their time away with such an air of contentment, I know not how to wish them wiser at the expense of gayety.”

  Mary Wollstonecraft

• “On all sides they trip along, buoyed up by animal spirits, and seemingly so void of care, that often, when I am walking on the _Boulevards_, it occurs to me, that they alone understand the full import of the term leisure; and they trifle their time away with such an air of contentment, I know not how to wish them wiser at the expence of their gaiety.”

  Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

• “After his retirement from business, Franklin enjoyed seven years of what he called leisure, but they were years of study and application; years of happiness and sweet content, but years of aspiration and an earnest looking into the future.”

  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great

• “Bejing - BAY-jing (there is no sounds such as found in 'leisure' in Chinese)”

  Archive 2007-11-18

• “In that light, the performance of France (and of the European Union in general) does not look so bad: A much higher rate of growth of productivity than the U.S., and, as one might expect given that leisure is a normal good, the allocation of part of that increase to increased income, and part to increased leisure.”

  The European Outlook, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “To sin in haste and repent at leisure is not a privilege available to the public servant.”

  At long last, it's recall day (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “To make hippocras: Take a gallon of claret of white wine, and put therein four ounces of ginger, an ounce and a half of nutmegs, of cloves one quarter, of sugar four pound; let all this stand together in a pot at least twelve hours, then take it, and put it into a clean bag made for the purpose, so that the wine may come with good leisure from the spices.”

  hippocras « paper fruit

• “We've converged upon log-utility and rational choice as the explanation for the observed variations in leisure ...”

  European Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “It does not mean they need to work all the time, but that even in leisure, there has to be a value to it.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

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