LEISURE QUOTES

quotations about leisure

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

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

attributed, How We Live: Then and Now

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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

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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"

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

BERTRAND RUSSELL

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

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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


Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

MASON COOLEY

City Aphorisms

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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

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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


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

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He hath no leisure who useth it not.

GEORGE HERBERT

"Jacula Prudentum", The Poetical Works of George Herbert

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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


Life is indeed more agreeable by alternate occupation and leisure.

DEMOPHILUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


To make good use of leisure is difficult.

CHILO

attributed, Day's Collacon


A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure.

THE BEATLES

"Girl"

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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