Best 239 quotes in «leisure quotes» category

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

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

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

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?

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

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

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

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

God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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

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.