Leisure Quotes

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

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.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

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.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

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.

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.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

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.

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.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

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

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in 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.

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.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

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.

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