Leisure Quotes

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn

Happy, Tomorrow, Another

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

Life, Two, Enough

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

Respect, Political, Easy

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Person, Lazy

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Gain, Thou

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle

End, Labor, Gain

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Life, Happiness, Power

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Time, Beautiful

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

Happy, Secret, Miserable

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

Time, Working, Water

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy, Enough, Miserable

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Anxiety, Moments

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
Johnny Depp

Bad, Remember, Felt

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Peace, War, Him

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Aldous Huxley

Good, Culture, Pay

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Aldous Huxley

Time, Making, Won

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

Long, Present, Simply

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce

Women, Wish, Place

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli

Two, Means, Increased

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Knowledge, Might

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron

Love, Men, Haste

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
George Eastman

Working, Hours, Determines

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

Good, Reading, Fill

The busier we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Laurence J. Peter

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams

Great, Experience, Wisdom

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve

Married, Pleasure, Grief

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.
Hugh Jackman

Work, Time, War

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Anthony Trollope

Life, Evening, Parent

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