Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury. — Horace
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands. — George Soros
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation. — Orville Dewey
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. — Marshall McLuhan
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation. — Ashton Kutcher
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. — Horace
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play. — L. P. Jacks
To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job,
but somebody has to do it.
Industrious people build industry.
Lazy people build civilization. — Kazuaki Tanahashi
The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity. — Annie Besant
Leisure Quotes
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days. — Jerry Falwell
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. — John Gunther
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. — Winston Churchill
I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. — Audrey Hepburn
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. — James K. Polk
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms. — Alice Walker
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. — Thorstein Veblen
I am not too much into Netflix and Amazon because spending quality time with family is more valuable. — Smriti Mandhana
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. — Alexander Lowen
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. — John Woolman
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. — Edie Sedgwick
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. — Arthur Lacey
It's too bad that 'Dragon Ball,' which I drew for a very long time, has ended. Just kidding. I'm incredibly glad. Now I can just leisurely sit around! — Akira Toriyama
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own). — Richard Louv
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want. — Prince Philip
The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own. — Raymond Williams
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. — Isocrates
Leisured Quotes
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself. — Max Keiser
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. — William Hazlitt
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless. — William Wordsworth
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
Well, the world of entertainment and leisure is gigantic. — Jensen Huang
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. — Fulton J. Sheen
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. — François-René de Chateaubriand
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. — Johnny Depp
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw
It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony. — R.K. Narayan
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. — Charles Baudelaire
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life. — Sam Keen
Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.
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. — Henry David Thoreau
All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself. — Michel Quoist
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. — Henry David Thoreau
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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
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. — H. L. Mencken
The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness. — Marcus Aurelius
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. — Oscar Wilde
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. — Benjamin Disraeli
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. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe? — Henry David Thoreau
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure. — Aristotle
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles? — Leonardo da Vinci
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals. — Bertrand Russell
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking. — Pearl S. Buck
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. — C. Neil Strait
Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational. — John Kenneth Galbraith
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. — Benjamin Franklin
Most of man's problems in the modern world arise from the constant and unavoidable exposure to the stimuli of urban and industrial civilization, the varied aspects of environmental pollution, the physiological disturbances associated with sudden changes in ways of life, the estrangement from the conditions and natural cycles under which human evolution took place, the emotional trauma and the paradoxical solitude in congested cities, the monotony, boredom and compulsory leisure — Ren
The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. Ecclesiasticus 38:25 — Bible
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life. — Robert Bridges
Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour. — Richard Steele
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. — Seneca
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement. — B. C. Forbes
Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure. — Charles Baudelaire
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams. — Henry David Thoreau
Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit. — Harriet Martineau
... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure. — Margaret Kennedy
Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring? — Plutarch
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself. — Samuel Johnson
I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything. — Winston Churchill
It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work. — Spider Robinson
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam. — R. H. Tawney
A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season. — Norm MacDonald
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax. — Charles Bukowski
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