Leisure Quotes

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

Marry in haste, repent in leisure.

Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.

A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal