Quotes about Leisure
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
— Brigham Young
Leisure with dignity.
— Cicero
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
— Toni Morrison
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
— Marilyn Monroe
Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.
— Mark Twain
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
— Arthur C. Clarke
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
— Henry David Thoreau
All play and no work make Jack a poor boy.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do
— Oscar Wilde
Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry.
— Oswald Chambers