Best Leisure Quotes

505 Leisure quotes by 348 unique authors

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that… — George Bernard Shaw
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity… — John Jay Chapman
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being… — Charles Baudelaire
I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful. — Steve Ballmer
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with… — Galileo Galilei
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. — Branch Rickey
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
He hath no leisure who useth it not. — George Herbert
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. — Zhang Yimou
I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing… — Walter Huston
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes forth from His… — David McIntyre
Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at… — Josemaria Escriva
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. — Unknown Author
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. — Henry David Thoreau
I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure. — Ralph Nader
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. — William Hazlitt

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