Leisure Quotes
Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure
William Shakespeare
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau
Leisure may prove to be a curse rather than a blessing, unless education teaches a flippant world that leisure is not a synonym for entertainment.
William L. Bogan
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Henry David Thoreau
Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.
Gene Perret
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
Fulton J. Sheen
Failures are often the results of timidity and fears; disappointments are the results of bashfulness; hours of leisure pass away like summer-clouds, therefore, do not waste opportunity of doing good.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
Having the foresight to plan to earn a living, is half of the peace and leisure in life.
Jafar ibn Muhammad as-S
Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.
Pope Benedict XVI
