Leisure Quotes

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

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

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.

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.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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

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.

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

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

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.