Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

“I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job.
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— Jarod Kintz

It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's…

— William Faulkner

A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy of a…

— John Updike

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have…

— Aristotle

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

— Margaret Kennedy

“Would you say that that man is at leisure who arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes, that the mania of a few makes…

— Seneca

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

— Henry David Thoreau

A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to…

— Norm MacDonald

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an…

— Josef Pieper

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

— Mary Ruefle

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go…

— B. C. Forbes