Leisure Quotes

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

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.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

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 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.

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.

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.