Leisure Quotes

Leisure Quote of the day

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

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.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

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.

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

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

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 is a game played beautifully by children.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

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

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of 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).

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

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

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

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.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

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.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

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

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

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

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

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

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him