Leisure Quotes

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and ...

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by ...

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the mi...

The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and ...

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be i...

Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the...

Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting...

We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemploym...

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...

To stand up straight and tread the turning mill,To lie flat and know nothing and be still,Are the tw...

I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?""That is so.""Pity. Pit...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, how...

Like every other good thing in thisworld, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, howe...

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinf...

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.

If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get ple...

Retirement must be wonderful. I mean you can suck in your stomach for only so long.

In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades...

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

But the more time has been released from production, the more imperative it has become to absorb tha...

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of...

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisu...

The question isn't at what age I want to retire it's at what income.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cult...

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the su...

Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time i...

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose o...

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks w...

One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is...

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried ...

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-e...

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is di...

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing a...

In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one q...

I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ...

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the...

It’s the Olympics. If you can’t get up to swim early in the morning, don’t go.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never...

The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to cons...