Leisure Quotes

Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

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

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

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

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we're seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

Leisure with dignity.

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.