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505 Leisure quotes by 348 unique authors

To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to… — Thomas Merton
Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south… — Anne Robinson
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of… — Henry David Thoreau
I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately. — Mark Gatiss
Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is… — James L Hymes
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget… — Bob Black
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after… — Seneca the Younger
Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure. — George Gissing
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse… — E F Schumacher
Progress starts with envisioning a new (yet old) lifestyle with the home as central to all aspects of life-work and leisure, food and energy. So,… — Jules Dervaes
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. — Mason Cooley
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. — Allan Bloom
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and… — Charles Lamb
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself. — Samuel Johnson
When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. — Robert Browning
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated… — Isadora Duncan
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated… — Mary McCarthy
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. — Bernard Malamud

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