Leisure Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at 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.

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.

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

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!