Quotes on leisure
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
Mirabeau, Comte de
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
Lacey, Arthur
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Leisure can be both a problem and a solution.
LeTonnerre, Nathaniel
Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure [has become] entertainment.
Bloom, Allan
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Repplier, Agnes
Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely.
Shoaff, Edgar A.