Quotes about Leisure
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
— Henry David Thoreau
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
— Samuel Johnson
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
— Albert Einstein
When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.
— Dr. Seuss
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.
— Oscar Wilde
had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
— Samuel Johnson
The hill is like an old woman, all her human obligations met, who sits at work day after day, in a kind of rapt leisure, at an intricate embroidery. She has time for all things. Because she does not expect ever to be finished, she is endlessly patient with details. She perfects flower and leaf, feather and song, adorning the briefest life in great beauty as though it were meant to last forever.
— Wendell Berry
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau