He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
We should abolish 'work. ' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.
Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week. . . The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.
Men love in haste, but they detest at 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.
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.
Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken
Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.
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.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.