Leisure Quotes

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

Who has more leisure than a worm?

We do more ready-to-wear and ath-leisure, things you would wear everyday. I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.