Quotations about Leisure

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. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie


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


Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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


The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. ~Arthur Lacey


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


All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast. ~André Maurois


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. ~Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, 1987


Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. ~Gene Perret


If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~Logan P. Smith


I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. ~Comte de Mirabeau


Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. ~Edgar A. Shoaff


We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.