Best 239 quotes in «leisure quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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

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...

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

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

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

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

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, not work, should be our primary goal.

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.

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.

Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.