World Leisure

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or leisure:

“In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

“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 (1857–1929)