Leisure Quotes - Page 5

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

There is no leisure about politics.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.

Sit loosely in the saddle.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

Leisure with dignity.

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

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

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.