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

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

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.

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.

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.

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

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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.

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

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

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

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.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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.

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

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

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

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

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

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.