| Author |
Quotes |
| Aristotle | 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 | The end of labor is to gain leisure. |
| Aristotle | 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 | The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. |
| Benjamin Franklin | A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. |
| Cicero | He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. |
| Cicero | The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. |
| George Allen | Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. |
| Gerald Brenan | We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. |
| Gertrude Stein | Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything. |
| Herman Melville | They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure. |
| Jacques Chardonne | The finest amusements are the most pointless ones. |
| Jim Vassar | Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. |
| Miriam Beard | Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. |
| Pythagoras | In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. |
| Scipio Africanus | I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. |
| Thomas Hobbes | Leisure is the mother of philosophy. |
| Henry David Thoreau | He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. |
| Henry David Thoreau | The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. |
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