Leisure Quotes - Page 2

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

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

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.

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

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch.

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

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

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

The first principle of all action is leisure.