Leisure Quotes
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
William Taylor
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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
Aristotle
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if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
C. S. Lewis
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
Alexandre Dumas
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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
John Milton
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Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.
Amelia B. Edwards
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Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.
George Eliot
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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
Jane Austen
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
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There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.
Aristotle
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
