quotations about leisure
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
attributed, How We Live: Then and Now
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES
"Leisure"
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
GEORGE EASTMAN
Image Magazine, 1952
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
MASON COOLEY
City Aphorisms
Too much leisure is unearned time.
GEORGE TORKILDSEN
Leisure and Recreation Management
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The Spirit of the Age
Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
By choosing leisure she had bid farewell to the fevered enterprise of getting-and-spending whereby, as the poet said, we lay waste our powers.
PATRICIA HAMPL
Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
GEORGE HERBERT
"Jacula Prudentum", The Poetical Works of George Herbert
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
JOHN LUBBOCK
The Use of Life
Leisure is a state of mind.
ROY C. WOOD & BOB BROTHERTON
The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management
To choose one's leisure is to choose one's life.
J. P. TONER
Leisure and Ancient Rome
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.
THORSTEIN VEBLEN
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Life is indeed more agreeable by alternate occupation and leisure.
DEMOPHILUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
To make good use of leisure is difficult.
CHILO
attributed, Day's Collacon
The political nature of leisure is rarely examined or explained, but leisure is the very antithesis of the logic of capitalism because it rejects the very ideas and values that sustain capitalism, that is, constant productivity and efficiency in the name of profit.
NICHOLE MARIE SHIPPEN
Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom
A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure.
THE BEATLES
"Girl"