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Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers. — Michael Showalter

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

We work to earn our leisure. — Aristotle.

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. — Jeremy Paxman

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. — C. Wright Mills

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. — Jeremy Collier

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. — Guy Debord

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

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. — Oscar Wilde

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. — Henry David Thoreau

agreeable in the sense of floating there in infinite isolation and leisure that it was — Henry James

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. — Henry James

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do. — Francine Jay

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. — Robert Browning

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. — James Russell Lowell

A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five seconds or more. — Ernest Hemingway,

A hobby is labor disguising itself as leisure. It is extremely destructive to the boundaries of private life. — Bauvard

Chaos is the penance for leisure. — Amy Tan

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose — Winston S. Churchill

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? — Matthew Arnold

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. — Oliver Herford

Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time. — Shanna Swendson

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure. — Andre Gide

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

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness. — Marcus Aurelius

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably. — Elsa Maxwell

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. — Jane Austen

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted. — Winston Churchill

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace. — Aristotle.

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. — Irwin Edman

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

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching ... by and large, chores are a thing of the past. — Billy Graham

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. — Ezra Pound

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure. — Bruce Lee

What is this life so full of care,
We don't have time to stand and stare. — W.H. Davies

It is well to lie fallow for a while. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

A life of leisure destroys a child. When — Daniel Black

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive. — Seneca.

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. — William Shakespeare

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. — George MacDonald

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. — Michael Strahan

Entertainment has a bad name ... The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights. — Michael Chabon

We work to have leisure, on which happiness depends. - Aristotle — Brigid Schulte

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience. — Susan Maushart

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts. — William Ralph Inge

An easy life, but not a sedentary one. — Marty Rubin

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson

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). — Richard Louv

The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure. — Robert Updegraff

What you imagine as overwhelming or terrifying while at leisure becomes something you can cope with when you must-there is no time for fear. — Rebecca Solnit

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. — Henry David Thoreau

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. — Branch Rickey

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure. — Ralph Nader

I'm not lazy, simply adept at leisure — Bemy Wells

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet

All pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on. — Mae West

If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby. — Ronald Dunn

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Having thought it through at your leisure, you'll be able to say no with greater confidence. — Auliq Ice

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it. — Sutton Foster

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure. — James Hillman

The future," wrote C. K. Brightbill, "will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. — Andrea Bocelli

You do not always say goodbye to those you love beside a deathbed, in an atmosphere of leisure and incense. — Graham Greene

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. — Eleanor Roosevelt

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever. — Eric Fellner

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

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. — Plato

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time. — Cher Wang

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. — Steve Earle

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. — Amelia B. Edwards

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Christ's church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time. — Billy Graham

Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them. — Rebekah Nathan

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. — Bertrand Russell

Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire. — Poggio Bracciolini

I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women ... I like bridge. — Bonar Law

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness. — Henry Ford

Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence. — Herman Melville

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. — Bernard Malamud

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home ... : reading by the fireside ... Listening to music. — Salvador De Madariaga

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good ... — CrimethInc.

I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos. — David Foster Wallace

How to share leisure time is a phantom issue between husbands and wives. It is more important than making a choice about children's school... — Girdhar Joshi

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park. — Christo

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands. — George Soros

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class. — Eric Jay Beck

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. — Erik Larson

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us. — Agnes Repplier

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero