Leisure Quotes · Page 17

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

— Winston Churchill

Who has more leisure than a worm?

— Seneca the Younger

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with…

— Isocrates

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love…

— Elisabeth Elliot

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even…

— Baltasar Gracian

But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

— Sutton Foster

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not…

— David Elkind

The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor,…

— Bill Gates

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because…

— Clement Greenberg

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

— William Russell

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew…

— Mark Gatiss

The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an…

— Fritz Kreisler

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

— Herman Melville

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading…

— Jane Austen

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

— Thomas Hobbes

Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx…

— Mark Skousen

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have…

— Marcus Aurelius

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

— Irwin Edman

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

— Robin Sharma

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every…

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

— Audrey Hepburn

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

— Gary Gygax