| "Say not, when I have leisure I will study you may not have leisure." »The Mishnah |
| "leisure is the mother of philosophy." »Thomas Hobbes |
| "An intellectual improvement arises from leisure." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy." »Seneca |
| "The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security." »Bertrand Russell |
| "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." »Arnold J. Toynbee |
| "We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure." »John Dryden |
| "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "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 |
| "He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry." »Jeanne-Marie Roland |
| "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure." »Chilo |
| "Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure." »Thorstein Veblen |
| "Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure." »George Gordon Byron |
| "Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred." »W. N. Taylor |
| "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level." »Bertrand Russell |
| "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." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty." »James Russell Lowell |
| "If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world." »William Lyon Phelps |
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