Leisure Quotes - Page 4

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise

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

Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.

The more we do, the more we can do.

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

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.