Quotes about Leisure

“Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.”

“It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.”

“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”

“Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.”

“Leisure is the exultation of the possible.”

“If we don't come apart; we will come apart.”

“The busier we are the more leisure we have.”

“When you like your work every day is a holiday.”

“In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.”

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

“When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.”

“They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.”

“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”

“If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.”

“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?”

“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”

“If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.”

“I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.”

“How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue”

“We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.”

“We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.”

“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”

“It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.”

“To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.”

“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”

“Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.”

“It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''”

“Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.”

“The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.”

“Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.”