#Leisure Quotes

“Would I were in an alehouse in London.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?What masque, what music? How shall we beguileThe lazy time if not with some delight?”

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

“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”

“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.”

“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.”

“To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.”

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”

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

“Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.”

“We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.”

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing.”

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

“The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.”

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

“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.”

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

“Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.”

“I love the broad margin to my life.”

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

“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.”

“Let us save the tomorrows for work.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.”

“The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.”

“One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.”

“Leisure with dignity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”