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

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

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
John Woolman

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Anthony Burgess

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

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

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

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Thorstein Veblen

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

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
Swami Sivananda

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
Clive Bell

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

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
Prince Philip

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
Katharine Anthony

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler

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

He hath no leisure who useth it not.
George Herbert

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
Branch Rickey

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
Marcus V. Pollio