His Leisure Quotes
- The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it.… — H. L. Mencken
- A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and… — François-René de Chateaubriand
- It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier
- Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work… — Karl Marx
- The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. — Cyril Connolly
- Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in… — B. C. Forbes
- What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends… — Saint Basil
- It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit… — George MacDonald
- It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. — Marilynne Robinson
- The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his… — James A. Michener
- He carried a pipe in his left hand, and as he examined Will at his leisure, he exhaled sending a cloud of sweet-smelling, cough-induced smoke.… — Cassandra Clare