Leisure Quotes

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

"Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall."
-Fulton J. Sheen

"Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy."
-Seneca

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure."
-Benjamin Franklin

"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

"The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security."
-Bertrand Russell

"The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity."
-Patrick Murray

"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have."
-William Hazlitt

"Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure."
-Rabbi Hillel

"If you're taking up 4, 5, 6 foot of space, you're depriving someone else of their leisure time activity. When we get busy it is elbow to elbow."
-Faye Cotner

"We'll have early voting, of course, before that, beginning on the 12th of April through the 27th, to give people a chance to vote at their leisure."
-Ann Beard

"The trend for leisure fares has been upward all summer (averaging 16% more than a year ago), and it's continuing through the fall."
-Bob Harrell

"That's not including any leisure activities such as golf, fishing or kayaking."
-Jeff Mielke

"The Rockford area has promoted itself for leisure events and sporting events."
-Tom Austin

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

"The average ticket value of a business traveler is about twice that of a leisure customer's ticket."
-David Cush

"Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure."
-The Mishnah

"This project is the first step toward enhancing Atlantic City International Airport as a destination for both leisure and business travelers."
-Frank Spencer

"We're usually breaking down film when the show is on. There's not much leisure time during the season."
-Matt Ballard

"This is an important historical site which is now a leisure facility and I feel certain that there is some way to save it."
-Barry Davies

"More than 30 percent of the job growth is in leisure and hospitality, and those jobs are not high paying. So there is a little bit of a worry about job quality."
-Alan Gin

"Business travelers make the decisions based on schedule, leisure travelers do it based on price. We think we can be very competitive in both areas."
-Rick Delisi

"The tunnel is the problem. For people to come and go at their leisure would be ideal."
-Manuel Hernandez

"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
-Gerald Brenan

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

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

"We expect growth from most of our core businesses (in 2006/2007). Earnings from the leisure sector would depend on developments in the security situation."
-Krishan Balendra

"The potential is enormous but it's up to us to really develop that leisure-oriented market."
-Dave Foley