There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when…

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

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

— Henry Ford

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

— Charles Baudelaire

... 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

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

But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just…

— Ralph Borsodi

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

— Benjamin Franklin

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

— James Mackintosh

“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.…

— William Shakespeare

“Idleness is seductive. Just relax and do nothing, it says.”

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe