Quotes on Leisure Time

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

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).

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

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.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.