Quotes and Sayings About Leisure
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-- Abigail Adams -
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
-- Alexander Lowen -
[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.
-- Allan Bloom -
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.
-- Amy Carmichael -
A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise
-- Anna Laetitia Waring -
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.
-- Antonin Artaud -
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.
-- Aristotle -
It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.
-- Arne Garborg -
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
-- Arthur Lacey -
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
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,
-- Ben Goldacre -
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
-- Bertrand Russell -
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
-- Blaise Pascal -
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.
-- Bob Black -
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.
-- Boy George -
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
-- Branch Rickey -
I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.
-- Brigid Schulte -
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
-- Brigid Schulte -
Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
-- C. Wright Mills -
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
-- Chilon of Sparta -
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. 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.
-- Clement Greenberg -
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.
-- Clement Greenberg -
A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.
-- David Riesman -
Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
-- Dorothy Allison
