Leisure Quotes

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

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

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

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

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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

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

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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.

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.

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

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

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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

He hath no leisure who useth it not.