Leisure Quotes

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

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

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

The first principle of all action is leisure.

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.

The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

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

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.