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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. -- Thomas Hobbes
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. -- Benjamin Franklin
The end of labor is to gain leisure. -- Aristotle
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. -- Lord Byron
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. -- George Bernard Shaw
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. -- Samuel Johnson
Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. -- Ben Shapiro
Leisure with dignity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Leisure unmasks our weaknesses. -- Mason Cooley
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. -- Mason Cooley
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. -- Branch Rickey
Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal. -- Gary Gutting
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. -- Benjamin Franklin
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. -- Seneca the Younger
Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy. -- Thomas Hobbes
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. -- Margaret Mead
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. -- Mary Ritter Beard
Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. -- William Russell
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. -- Seneca the Younger
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. -- George Allen, Sr.
Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. -- Gene Perret
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. -- John Milton
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure. -- Thomas Hobbes
Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit. -- Harriet Martineau
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. -- George Zimmerman
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! -- Edward Young
Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things -- John Walter Bratton
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. -- Mortimer Adler
I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while. -- Lauren Ambrose
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura -- Seneca the Younger
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. -- Gilbert Highet
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. -- 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 living. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure. -- Aristotle
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 forget about work. -- Bob Black
Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. -- George Eliot
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence. -- Josef Pieper
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. -- Vernon Lee
The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour. -- Thorstein Veblen
In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. -- Edie Sedgwick
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Remember, what does 'retirement' mean? It doesn't mean that you're a couch potato. Leisure is not the same thing as rest. If you're bicycling five miles a day, that's leisure, but it certainly takes a lot of effort. -- Robert Fogel
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. -- George Bernard Shaw
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from. -- Charles Lamb
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. -- Samuel Johnson
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. -- John Gunther
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. -- Mortimer Adler
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. -- Dean Inge
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. -- Laurence J. Peter
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. -- Henry David Thoreau
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. -- Jimmy Buffett
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. -- Cyril Connolly
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. -- Scipio Africanus
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! -- Swami Sivananda
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. -- Audrey Hepburn
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. -- Steve Earle
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. -- Jared Diamond
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. -- Thorstein Veblen
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. -- Dag Hammarskjold
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. -- Benjamin Franklin
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. -- Guy Debord
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. -- George Eastman
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
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. -- Dalai Lama
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die. -- Jaime Lerner
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement -- Raymond Chandler
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. -- Henry David Thoreau
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness. -- Henry Ward Beecher
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
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. -- Anthony Burgess
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. -- Johnny Depp
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. -- Gunter Grass
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. -- Vitruvius
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. -- William Lyon Phelps
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles. -- Audrey Hepburn
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. -- Thorstein Veblen
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. -- Benjamin Franklin
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for -- Christopher Dawson
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. -- Pope Francis
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. -- Joshua Foer
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. -- Saint Basil
There is no leisure about politics. -- Thomas Aquinas
Marry in haste, repent at leisure. -- Walter Scott
Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Frederick Tilney
Chaos is the penance for leisure. -- Amy Tan
We work to earn our leisure. -- Aristotle
Who has more leisure than a worm? -- Seneca the Younger
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure. -- Andre Gide
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. -- Oscar Wilde
Small leisure have the poor for grief. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Publish in haste and repent at leisure. -- Mason Cooley
We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult. -- Peter Drucker
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. -- John Dryden
I want leisure to readâ??an immense amount. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The first principle of all action is leisure. -- Aristotle
Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken -- Ovid
Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. -- Amelia B. Edwards
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. -- Elfriede Jelinek
Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow. -- Ovid
He hath no leisure who useth it not. -- George Herbert
Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. -- Ovid
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. -- Henry James
My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. -- Michael Strahan
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure. -- Joseph Joubert
The busier we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt
My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure! -- Guillaume Apollinaire
Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure. -- William Shakespeare
Business is leisure when you find pleasure in it. -- Peter Adejimi
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure. -- Gelett Burgess
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure -- Aristotle
In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding. -- Richard Jeni
There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever. -- Eric Fellner
A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise -- Anna Laetitia Waring
Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure. -- Po Bronson

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