Art Quote by Mary McCarthy

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

— Benjamin Franklin

As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means…

— Allan Bloom

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic…

— Lin Yutang

“In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.”

— John Fiske

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…

— Bob Black

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being…

— George Bernard Shaw

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

— Mortimer Adler

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have…

— Aristotle

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead

How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our…

— J. Richard Clarke