leisure quotes

• I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet; leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel; leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings: I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares. (William Morris) [leisure/war/war/war]
• The end of labor is to gain leisure. ( Aristotle) [leisure]
• 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) [give/leisure/order/leisure]
• Leisure is the exultation of the possible. (Martin Buber) [leisure]
• Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [evil/leisure/disease]
• Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. (William Congreve) [misfortune/pleasure/leisure]
• Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. (Benjamin Disraeli) [leisure]
• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. (Benjamin Franklin) [life/leisure/life/willpower]
• Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. (Benjamin Franklin) [time/leisure]
• Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. (Benjamin Franklin) [leisure/time/leisure/willpower]
• The busier we are the more leisure we have. (William Hazlitt) [more/leisure]
• The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. (Eric Hoffer) [result/needs/leisure/think]
• They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. (Herman Melville) [leisure]
• The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. (H. L. Mencken) [leisure/value/leisure/time]
• In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. ( Ovid) [leisure/people]
• Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. ( Seneca) [leisure/literature/death]
• Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. (George Bernard Shaw) [leisure/activity/activity/leisure]
• The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. (George Bernard Shaw) [being/leisure/wonder]
• The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. (George Bernard Shaw) [being/leisure]
• The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. (Henry David Thoreau) [leisure/integrity/day/day]
• Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. (Oscar Wilde) [leisure]
• Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. (George Gordon Byron) [men/love/leisure]

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