Leisure is the time when one is not working or occupied; free time.

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

2. People don't take trips — trips take people.
John Steinbeck

3. The end of labor is to gain leisure
Anonymous

4. A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.
Benjamin Franklin

5. Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. Organizing your leisure effectively is the highest level of civilization.
Bertrand Russell

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

8. Take a break for a moment. It's Ok
Anonymous

9. The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt

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

11. This is very important — to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you’re gonna lose everything…just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That’s why they’re all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

12. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps

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

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

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

16. Don’t expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen
Henry L. Doherty

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

18. Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
Guy Debord

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

20. Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
Harriet Martineau

21. Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
Alexander Lowen

22. Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
Agnes Repplier

23. It's Not A Man's Working Hours That Is Important, It Is How He Spends His Leisure Time.
Marilynne Robinson

24. In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for leisure and social activities within the village community. I think this is the most direct path toward making this country a happy, pleasant land.
Masanobu Fukuoka

25. The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
Ezra Pound

26. Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams

27. Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
Seneca the Younger

28. The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.
James A. Michener

29. 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

30. Work is not as boring as leisure.
Charles Baudelaire

31. The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure
Anonymous

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

33. And they got you where they want you.
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34. Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels, How heavily we drag the load of life! Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It makes us wander, wander earth around To fly that tyrant, thought.
Edward Young

35. The pleasure in the leisure
Anonymous

36. We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.
Robert Coles

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

38. Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without harm. Indeed, the Bible does not say we should work one day and rest six or that work and rest should be balanced evenly but directs us to the opposite ratio. Leisure and pleasure are great goods, but we can take only so much of them
Timothy Keller

39. He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Henry David Thoreau

40. The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure
Anonymous

41. 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

42. Sublime love needs leisure.
Andre Maurois

43. Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
Mason Cooley

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

45. Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure.
William Shakespeare

46. I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business
Anonymous

47. Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness.
Josef Pieper

48. The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
Aristotle

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

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

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

52. Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes

53. We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. Aristotle

54. It's weird to have leisure – to have time off. I'm not used to it.
Sutton Foster

55. Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

56. Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
Elfriede Jelinek

57. 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

58. Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
C. Neil Strait

59. The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
Arthur Lacey

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

61. To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Bertrand Russell

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

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