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

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.
Michael Strahan

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
James K. Polk

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Byron

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou

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

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Cyril Connolly

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Thorstein Veblen

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

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

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Raymond Chandler

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle

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

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Dag Hammarskjold

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.
Christo

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

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

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Sydney J. Harris