Leisure Quotes

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

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

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

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.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

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

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

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

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.