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Leisure Quotes

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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

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Sean Bean

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
Jared Diamond

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Scipio Africanus

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
Steve Earle

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
Gunther Grass

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
Logan P. Smith

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Thorstein Veblen

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

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

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

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
Paul Goodman

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

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
Branch Rickey

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes

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

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
George Allen

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

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Oliver Herford

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

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