Leisure Quotes

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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