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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

— Alan Bennett

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

— Benjamin Franklin

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

— Nicholas Sparks

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

— Benjamin Franklin

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

— Peg Bracken

Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of…

— Shawn Achor

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

— Anonymous

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 is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.

— Benjamin Franklin

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

— Madame Roland