Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
The busier we are the more leisure we have.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.