Leisure Quotes - Page 3

• All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Work, Intellectual, Statistics

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 219 (13 April 1773)

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• Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Play, Silence

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• We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

  Aristotle

  Peace, Giving Up, War

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• Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.788

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• The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

  Bertrand Russell

  Should Have, Ideas, Rich

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

  William Taylor

  Time, Men, Temptation

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• In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

  Pythagoras

  Life, Angel, Men

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• To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

  Bertrand Russell

  Civilization, People, Relaxation

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14

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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

  Knowledge, Curiosity, Might

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.97

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• We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

  Gerald Brenan

  Butterfly, People, Relaxation

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• One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

  David Mamet

  Country, Adventure, Cities

  "Hands Off Our Guns" by David Mamet, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 26, 2013.

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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

  Life, Political, Politics

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• Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

  Aldous Huxley

  Culture, World, Pay

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.134, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

  Anthony Trollope

  Retirement, Work, Parent

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “The Letters of Anthony Trollope”, p.691, Stanford University Press

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Book, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  Oliver Herford

  Inspirational, Witty, Drinking

  "Attributed to Oliver Herford in "Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms" (p. 187)". 1955.

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• Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mean, Men, Civilization

  Speech at Manchester, 3 April 1872, in 'The Times' 4 April 1872

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• The more we do, the more we can do.

  William Hazlitt

  Life Changing, Leisure Activities, Famous Motivational

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1846, Delphi Classics

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• The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, College, Mind

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• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Business, Reality

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Life, Beautiful, Eye

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.26, e-artnow

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• There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Anxiety, Toil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.88, Xist Publishing

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• Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

  Sivananda

  Buddhist, Waste, Realizing

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• What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hero, Son, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

  Boy George

  House, London, Acid

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