Leisure Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

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

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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.

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.

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.

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

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.

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

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

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.