leisure Quotes

I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are... ...

"If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water."

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part... ...

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and... ...

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the... ...

The goal of working is to have free time.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in... ...