Leisure Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

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.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

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.

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.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

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.

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

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.

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

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

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

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

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.

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

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

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

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