Quotes: Seneca

"Leisure without learning is death."

–– Seneca (4 BC - AD 65), Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman 

Quotes: Philip Lopate

"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of  than taking myself off somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun.' 

–– Philip Lopate (b. 1943), American film critic, essayist, poet, and teacher 

via: Sketchbook 21, 2013, p. 69