I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort. – Geraldine McCaughrean
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. – George Bernard Shaw A Treatise on Parents and Children.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. – Guy Debord
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. – James K. Polk
Basically, particularly in Britain, it’s a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. – Irvine Welsh
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – John Lubbock
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal
The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate. – Arthur Quiller-Couch
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin
Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys. – Brian Sutton-Smith
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. – Andrea Bocelli
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. – Prince Philip
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. – George Eastman
I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately. – Mark Gatiss
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. – Natalie Clifford Barney
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. – Mortimer Adler
Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. – Jeremy Paxman
