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The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. William Inge

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Scipio Africanus

Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.

Ginger Rogers

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Branch Rickey

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

John Woolman

I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.

Maxine Peake

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adler

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

Johnny Depp

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

George Herbert

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

Prince Philip

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Thorstein Veblen

Both business and leisure travellers are enjoying unprecedented levels of choice.

Gillian Tans

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

William Inge

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

Vitruvius

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.

Audrey Hepburn

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

Lauren Ambrose

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

George Allen, Sr.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Pope Francis

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Jimmy Buffett

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

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Cyril Connolly

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.

Peter Diamandis

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Oliver Herford

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

Steve Earle

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

Renzo Piano

I am opposed to vacations and leisure. I try to make every day a work day. Even if there's nothing on my schedule, I will try do at least one task that is work-related.

Fred Armisen

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Boy George

The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

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

Benjamin Franklin

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

Thorstein Veblen

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Gerald Brenan

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

Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce crime as having extra police on the streets, and increasing the population of concert halls may actually help decrease the population of prisons.

Stephen Hough