The leisure of time is the pleasure of life

“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who…

— Donna Lynn Hope

We simply do not have time as we move from one meeting to the next to have hours to peruse leisure websites of whatever…

— Crispin Blunt

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss…

— E. F. Schumacher

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

— George Allen, Sr

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

— Seneca the Younger

“Key to the success of ugly leisure is that it keeps those who participate in it in the dark about how little it is…

— Paul Munson & Joshua Farris Drake

“Every private thought is performed for public consumption, and every leisure moment (from toilet training to lovemaking) is a highly focused search for a…

— Lee Siegel

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

— Lord Byron

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English…

— Winston Churchill

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

— William Shakespeare

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality…

— George Bernard Shaw

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

— Ovid