Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old leisure quotes, leisure sayings, and leisure proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain, the lazy one never.Benjamin Franklin
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It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.Marilynne Robinson
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If you are losing your leisure, look out! — It may be you are losing your soul.Virginia Woolf
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Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.Josef Pieper
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Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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
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A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
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Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.Karl Marx
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Organizing your leisure effectively is the highest level of civilization.Bertrand Russell
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The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. Arthur Lacey
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Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.Isocrates
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Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.Guy Debord
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If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.Eleanor Roosevelt
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.Henry David Thoreau
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.Bertrand Russel
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The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.Anonymous
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.Ovid
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.Samuel Johnson
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.Benjamin Franklin
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It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.Lin Yutang
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.Aristotle
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Getting to know experienced people is the best leisure time you can have.Mahrukh Memon
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Leisure isn't always relaxation and it's relaxation that counts.Marty Rubin
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.Benjamin Franklin
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In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Dalai Lama XIV
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Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.George Allen
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Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.Harriet Martineau
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.Anonymous