Ancient Quote by William Butler Yeats

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

— Jack Nicholson

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

— Bertrand Russell

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

— Eric Jay Beck

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

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

— Aristotle

“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults are not…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

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

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

— Harriet Martineau

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for…

— David Riesman

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function,…

— Josef Pieper

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

— Benjamin Franklin