Best 239 quotes in «leisure quotes» category

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.

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

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

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.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.