Quotes and Sayings About Leisure
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
-- Toni Morrison -
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
-- Tryon Edwards -
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.
-- Valerie Solanas -
What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
-- Vernon Lee -
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
-- Victor Hugo -
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.
-- William Goffe -
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt -
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
-- William Ralph Inge -
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
-- William Taylor -
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.
-- Yao Ming -
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
-- Zhang Yimou
