Quotes about Leisure

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. Votes: 6

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Votes: 6

The end of labor is to gain leisure. Votes: 4

Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal. Votes: 4

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. Votes: 4

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. Votes: 4

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. Votes: 4

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. Votes: 4

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. Votes: 4

Leisure with dignity. Votes: 3

Leisure unmasks our weaknesses. Votes: 3

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. Votes: 3

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. Votes: 3

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. Votes: 3

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy. Votes: 3

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. Votes: 3

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. Votes: 3

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. Votes: 3

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. Votes: 3

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. Votes: 3

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. Votes: 3

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. Votes: 3

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. Votes: 3

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit. Votes: 3

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure. Votes: 3

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Votes: 3

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! Votes: 3

Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things Votes: 3

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. Votes: 3

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while. Votes: 3

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. Votes: 3

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura Votes: 3

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. Votes: 3

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure. Votes: 3

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living. Votes: 3

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work. Votes: 3

Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. Votes: 3

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence. Votes: 3

The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour. Votes: 3

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. Votes: 3

In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. Votes: 3

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. Votes: 3

Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort. Votes: 3

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. Votes: 3

I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from. Votes: 3

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. Votes: 2

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. Votes: 2

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. Votes: 2

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. Votes: 2

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. Votes: 2

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. Votes: 2

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. Votes: 2

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. Votes: 2

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. Votes: 2

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. Votes: 2

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. Votes: 2

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! Votes: 2

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. Votes: 2

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. Votes: 2

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. Votes: 2

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. Votes: 2

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Votes: 2

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. Votes: 2

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. Votes: 2

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. Votes: 2

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. Votes: 2

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. Votes: 2

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Votes: 2

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die. Votes: 2

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement Votes: 2

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. Votes: 2

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness. Votes: 2

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. Votes: 2

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Votes: 2

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. Votes: 2

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. Votes: 2

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. Votes: 2

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. Votes: 2

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. Votes: 2

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. Votes: 2

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. Votes: 2

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for Votes: 2

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. Votes: 2

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour. Votes: 1

We work to earn our leisure. Votes: 0

Chaos is the penance for leisure. Votes: 0

Marry in haste, repent in leisure. Votes: 0

Marry in haste, repent at leisure. Votes: 0

There is no leisure about politics. Votes: 0

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure. Votes: 0

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult. Votes: 0

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. Votes: 0

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. Votes: 0

Publish in haste and repent at leisure. Votes: 0

Small leisure have the poor for grief. Votes: 0

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. Votes: 0

Who has more leisure than a worm? Votes: 0

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken Votes: 0

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. Votes: 0

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow. Votes: 0

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. Votes: 0

The first principle of all action is leisure. Votes: 0

He hath no leisure who useth it not. Votes: 0

I want leisure to read—an immense amount. Votes: 0

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. Votes: 0

Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. Votes: 0

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. Votes: 0

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. Votes: 0

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure. Votes: 0

The busier we are the more leisure we have. Votes: 0

My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure! Votes: 0

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure. Votes: 0

Business is leisure when you find pleasure in it. Votes: 0

A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure. Votes: 0

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure Votes: 0

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding. Votes: 0

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever. Votes: 0

A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise Votes: 0

Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure. Votes: 0

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. Votes: 0

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. Votes: 0

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure. Votes: 0

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure. Votes: 0

Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure Votes: 0

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. Votes: 0

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours. Votes: 0

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. Votes: 0

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. Votes: 0

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. Votes: 0

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions. Votes: 0

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all. Votes: 0

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book. Votes: 0

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. Votes: 0

No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. Votes: 0

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. Votes: 0

The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning. Votes: 0

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class. Votes: 0

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably. Votes: 0

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class. Votes: 0

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. Votes: 0

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? Votes: 0

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless. Votes: 0

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ... Votes: 0

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally. Votes: 0

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. Votes: 0

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. Votes: 0

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. Votes: 0

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. Votes: 0

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. Votes: 0

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. Votes: 0

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. Votes: 0

I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure. Votes: 0

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. Votes: 0

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. Votes: 0

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. Votes: 0

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness. Votes: 0

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. Votes: 0

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. Votes: 0

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands. Votes: 0

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. Votes: 0

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. Votes: 0

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure. Votes: 0

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. Votes: 0

Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. Votes: 0

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. Votes: 0

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? Votes: 0

I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry. Votes: 0

Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain. Votes: 0

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. Votes: 0

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours. Votes: 0

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. Votes: 0

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. Votes: 0

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. Votes: 0

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. Votes: 0

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it. Votes: 0

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. Votes: 0

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. Votes: 0

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. Votes: 0

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education. Votes: 0

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Votes: 0

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue. Votes: 0

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! Votes: 0

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure. Votes: 0

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. Votes: 0

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal Votes: 0

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. Votes: 0

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. Votes: 0

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. Votes: 0

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits. Votes: 0

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together. Votes: 0

Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done. Votes: 0

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. Votes: 0

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Votes: 0

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. Votes: 0

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension. Votes: 0

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. Votes: 0

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure. Votes: 0

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. Votes: 0

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. Votes: 0

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. Votes: 0

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. Votes: 0

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. Votes: 0

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. Votes: 0

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time. Votes: 0

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure. Votes: 0

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed. Votes: 0

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury. Votes: 0

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make. Votes: 0

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. Votes: 0

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. Votes: 0

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. Votes: 0

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. Votes: 0

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. Votes: 0

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. Votes: 0

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. Votes: 0

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. Votes: 0

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. Votes: 0

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. Votes: 0

God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. Votes: 0

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. Votes: 0

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. Votes: 0

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Votes: 0

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Votes: 0

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. Votes: 0

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. Votes: 0

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. Votes: 0

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable. Votes: 0

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? Votes: 0

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me! Votes: 0

I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder. Votes: 0

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Votes: 0

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. Votes: 0

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. Votes: 0

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. Votes: 0

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. Votes: 0

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. Votes: 0

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. Votes: 0

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. Votes: 0

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money. Votes: 0

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay. Votes: 0

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money Votes: 0

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. Votes: 0

Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be. Votes: 0

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure. Votes: 0

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering Votes: 0

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. Votes: 0

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music. Votes: 0

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. Votes: 0

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. Votes: 0

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business. Votes: 0

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness. Votes: 0

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Votes: 0

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own). Votes: 0

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean? Votes: 0

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful. Votes: 0

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. Votes: 0

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Votes: 0

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. Votes: 0

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. Votes: 0

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. Votes: 0

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another. Votes: 0

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. Votes: 0

The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure. Votes: 0

Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. Votes: 0

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy. Votes: 0

Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers. Votes: 0

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure. Votes: 0

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us. Votes: 0

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. Votes: 0

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately. Votes: 0

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure. Votes: 0

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. Votes: 0

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life. Votes: 0

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure. Votes: 0

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. Votes: 0

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight. Votes: 0

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points. Votes: 0

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. Votes: 0

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time. Votes: 0

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking Votes: 0

Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very conservative financial strategy. Votes: 0

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity. Votes: 0

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person Votes: 0

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. Votes: 0

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure. Votes: 0

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life. Votes: 0

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing. Votes: 0

The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe. Votes: 0

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind! Votes: 0

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. Votes: 0

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. Votes: 0

A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility. Votes: 0

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. Votes: 0

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business. Votes: 0

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved. Votes: 0

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved. Votes: 0

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. Votes: 0

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him. Votes: 0

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Votes: 0

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on. Votes: 0

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness. Votes: 0

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. Votes: 0

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. Votes: 0

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure... Votes: 0

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor. Votes: 0

Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears. Votes: 0

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. Votes: 0

This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood. Votes: 0

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself. Votes: 0

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity, Votes: 0

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure. Votes: 0

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before. Votes: 0

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. Votes: 0

I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment. Votes: 0

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work. Votes: 0

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides. Votes: 0

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. Votes: 0

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him Votes: 0

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts. Votes: 0

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity. Votes: 0

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. Votes: 0

Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we're seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry. Votes: 0

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. Votes: 0

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale. Votes: 0

The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. Votes: 0

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure. Votes: 0

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Votes: 0

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems. Votes: 0

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen. Votes: 0

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. Votes: 0

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human. Votes: 0

Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty. Votes: 0

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time. Votes: 0

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. Votes: 0

But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment. Votes: 0

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work. Votes: 0

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell: Votes: 0

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world. Votes: 0

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. Votes: 0

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate. Votes: 0

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play. Votes: 0

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer. Votes: 0

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold. Votes: 0

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure. Votes: 0

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity. Votes: 0

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles? Votes: 0

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor. Votes: 0

More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up! Votes: 0

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. Votes: 0

Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour. Votes: 0

To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings. Votes: 0

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth. Votes: 0

Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Votes: 0

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. Votes: 0

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. Votes: 0

Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and the Internet. We call it marrying China's growth with global resources. Votes: 0

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Votes: 0

Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life. Votes: 0

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. Votes: 0

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it. Votes: 0

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure. Votes: 0

Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money. Votes: 0

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying. Votes: 0

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations. Votes: 0

It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture. Votes: 0

The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need. Votes: 0

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island. Votes: 0

True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked. Votes: 0

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island. Votes: 0

A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure. Votes: 0

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other. Votes: 0

We do more ready-to-wear and ath-leisure, things you would wear everyday. I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me. Votes: 0

Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure. Votes: 0

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. Votes: 0

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love. Votes: 0

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure. Votes: 0

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. Votes: 0

I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home. Votes: 0

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’! Votes: 0

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman. Votes: 0

Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work. Votes: 0

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. Votes: 0

I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize. Votes: 0

What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. Votes: 0

We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time. Votes: 0

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. Votes: 0

The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week. Votes: 0

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. Votes: 0