161 Quotes About Leisure

I should hate to be employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the piano and seeing people. I find I have little enough spare time as it is." "Rubbish, caro, one can find time for important things if one makes an effort." conversation between Georgie and Lucia

Key to the success of ugly leisure is that it keeps those who participate in it in the dark about how little it is they get for their time invested.

He's rich," Jack muttered to Eliza, "or connected with rich persons.""Yes—the clothes, the coins ...""All fakeable.""How do you know him to be rich, then?""In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games." (Jack Shaftoe and Eliza)

Days spent in idleness and leisure creates empty pages in the anthology of human beings and leaves no indelible mark in the pages of a person’s life story.

what is the foundation of contemplative life? 'Oh, she said, without a pause -- leisure, it's based on leisure.

A harmonised life is one, where everything is so balanced that there is no craving for anything. You can love work, entertainment and leisure by harmonising them with each other.

Faber: Number one as I say quality information. Number two: Leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what people learn from the interaction of the first two.Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind.