Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
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.
The busier we are the more leisure we have.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.