- What is this life if, full of care,
- We have no time to stand and stare?
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES, Leisure
A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure.
My conception of America is a land where men and women may walk in ordered freedom in the independent conduct of their occupations; where they may enjoy the advantages of wealth, not concentrated in the hands of the few but spread through the lives of all; where they build and safeguard their homes, and give to their children the fullest advantages and opportunities of American life; where every man shall be respected in the faith that his conscience and his heart direct him to follow; where a contented and happy people, secure in their liberties, free from poverty and fear, shall have the leisure and impulse to seek a fuller life.
HERBERT HOOVER, speech, Oct. 22, 1928
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
MASON COOLEY, City Aphorisms
|