I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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.
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
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.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.
For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
