Leisure Quotes

505 quotes by 368 authors

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. — Andrea Bocelli
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. — Rita Mae Brown
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile… — Anthony Burgess
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. — Lord Byron
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca the Younger
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. — James K. Polk
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. — Laurence J. Peter
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a… — Fulton J. Sheen
In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do… — Violet Fane
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. — John Milton
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. — William Shakespeare
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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