Leisure Quotes

If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.

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

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And 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.

It is a great art to saunter !

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

Would I were in an alehouse in London.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

The first principle of all action is leisure.

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

I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.

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.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we haveTo wear away this long age of three hoursBetween our after-supper and bedtime?

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

Leisure with dignity.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

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

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and 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.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

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.

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.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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.