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505 Leisure quotes by 348 unique authors

You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must… — Grenville Kleiser
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in… — Gerolamo Cardano
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. — James Russell Lowell
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. — Samuel Johnson
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. — Guy Debord
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. — Max Weber
It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without… — Charles Spurgeon
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. — Elfriede Jelinek
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a… — Thomas Merton
Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be. — Robert H. Jackson
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. — Cyril Connolly
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He… — Edmund Burke
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his… — Thorstein Veblen
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and… — Thorstein Veblen
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others… — Isocrates
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
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. — Branch Rickey
Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. — Dorothy Allison
This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood… — Unknown Author
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting… — E. Haldeman-Julius
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics]… — Aristotle
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor,… — Katharine Anthony
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. — Mortimer Adler
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. — Prince Philip

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