Leisure Quotes

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

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

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

The first principle of all action is leisure.

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

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure.