Leisure Quotes

What is this life so full of care,We don't have time to stand and stare.

William Henry Davies

It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

Hans Hofmann

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

Elisabeth Elliot

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

Thorstein Veblen

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

Frances Wright

Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure

William Shakespeare

And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

Rest breeds rust.

Proverb

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

H. L. Mencken

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Dagobert D. Runes

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure

Samuel Johnson

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell

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

Herman Melville

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Ovid

It's no rest to be idle.

Paul Peel

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.

Ogden Nash

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

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Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.

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