Quotes on Leisure

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

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

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.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

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.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.