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Tag Name "Leisure" (367)

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Leisure with dignity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.
Josef Pieper
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
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Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
Vernon Lee
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
Seneca the Younger
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin
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Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.
Gary Gutting
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Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.
Gene Perret
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
Margaret Mead
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Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.
Mary McCarthy
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Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.
Mason Cooley
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Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.
William Russell
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Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
Harriet Martineau
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Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
George Zimmerman
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
Thomas Hobbes
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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
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
Benjamin Franklin
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Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.
Bob Black
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
Branch Rickey
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On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.
Lin Yutang
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