A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.
God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.
Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.