Leisure Quotes

“Sin in haste, repent at leisure.”)”

— Deepak Chopra

“Choose in haste and regret at leisure.”

— Brent Weeks

Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

— Mason Cooley

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“MARRY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE.”

— Anonymous

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

— Oscar Wilde

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

— Anonymous

There is no leisure about politics.

— Thomas Aquinas

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

— John Dryden

“Gemütlichkeit verspottet euren gesunden Verstand.”

— Kahlil Gibran

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Robin Sharma

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

— Edward Young

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

— Elsa Maxwell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Ralph Nader

Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and…

— Michael Showalter

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

— Monty Woolley

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick…

— Mae West

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

— Charles de Gaulle

That's when you start to believe, people leave you hanging. That's when you are hurt, you learn. Do we really have to…

— Myself

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure,…

— William Wilberforce

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of…

— John Burroughs

“He's rich," Jack muttered to Eliza, "or connected with rich persons." "Yes—the clothes, the coins ..." "All fakeable." "How do you know…

— Neal Stephenson

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays,…

— William Lyon Phelps

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor…

— Stephen Hawking

Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

...children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better…

— Bjorn Lomborg

In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other…

— Anonymous

Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as…

— B. C. Forbes

Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young…

— James L Hymes

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to…

— Winston Churchill

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,…

— Charles Heiser

With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms…

— Agnes de Mille

Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of…

— Robert M. Pirsig