Leisure Quotes - Page 6

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.