“ Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 215
“ If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 962
“ The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain, the lazy one never. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.6K
“ What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have — leisure and a quiet mind. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2K
“ Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognized them. ”
- Ann Landers- Copy
- 315
“ Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 610
“ Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills. ”
- Neil C. Strait- Copy
- 120
“ 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- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. ”
- Scipio Africanus- Copy
- 96
“ It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says "there is no wisdom without leisure.". ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness. ”
- Neil C. Strait- Copy
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“ The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 1.2K
“ We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 2.9K
“ When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 1.1K
“ It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
- 2.1K
“ He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.1K
“ To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. ”
- Oliver Herford- Copy
- 2K
“ Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
- 2.3K
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