Leisure Quotes

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. (Ovid)
Literally: I made this one [letter] longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter. View quote
Blaise Pascal
People want more and more leisure time which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that. View quote
Robert Fogel
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
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. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
He hath no leisure who useth it not. View quote
George Herbert
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. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. View quote
William Congreve
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. View quote
Oliver Herford
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
'War,' says Machiavelli, 'ought to be the only study of a prince' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great political doctor, 'to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. 'A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. View quote
Edmund Burke
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. View quote
Guy Debord
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. View quote
Mortimer Adler
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. View quote
Agnes Repplier
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Furthermore, since I have observed that our citizens are distracted with public affairs and private business, I have thought it best to write briefly, so that my readers, whose intervals of leisure are small, may be able to comprehend in a short time. View quote
Vitruvius
Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in. (Valerie Solanas)
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. View quote
James K. Polk
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. View quote
Branch Rickey
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. View quote
Branch Rickey
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch. View quote
William Hazlitt
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