Leisure Quotes
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
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I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.
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Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
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The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
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What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
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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.
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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.
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
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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.
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Who has more leisure than a worm?
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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.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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.
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Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.
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Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.
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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.
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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
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Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
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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.
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There is no leisure about politics.
