Leisure Quotes
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
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 and manhood.
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.
Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.
