Leisure Quotes

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

It would be glorious to see man at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

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A person who works should take time to rest, to spend time with family, to enjoy [life], to read, listen to music, play a sport. When work doesn't allow room for healthy leisure time, for restorative rest, then it enslaves [the worker].

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More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little free time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife—and watch TV.

Tell me how a people uses its leisure and I will tell you the quality of its civilization.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

We may divide the struggles of the human race into two chapters: first, the fight to get leisure; and second, what to do with our leisure when we have won it. Like all blessings, leisure is a bad thing unless it is well used.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

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

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