Leisure Quotes

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

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.

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

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