Leisure Quotes
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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.
Sara Coleridge
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The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
Oliver DeMille
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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
Aristotle
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What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure.
Henry Louis Gates
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Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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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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Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
Rabbi Hillel
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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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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
John Milton
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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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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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Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
Thomas Hobbes
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For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.
Plutarch
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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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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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Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).
Richard Louv
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Who has more leisure than a worm?
Seneca the Younger
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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