Best 239 quotes in «leisure quotes» category

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch.

I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women...I like bridge.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

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

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

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.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

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.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

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

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

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

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.