Leisure Quotes

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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

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

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

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

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.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

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

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.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

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

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

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.

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.