Leisure Quotes
Most popular leisure quotes
![If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare quote.](/img/q/91/3891A-if-all-the-year-were-playing-holidays-sport-would-be-william-shakespeare.png)
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
![It would be glorious to see man at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. - Henry David Thoreau quote.](/img/q/03/3903A-it-would-be-glorious-to-see-man-at-leisure-once-henry-david-thoreau.png)
It would be glorious to see man at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
![Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. - Benjamin Disraeli quote.](/img/q/69/8669A-increased-means-and-increased-leisure-are-two-civilizers-man-benjamin-disraeli.png)
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
![A person who works should take time to rest, to spend time with family, to enjoy [life], to read, listen to music, play a sport. When work doesn't allow room for healthy leisure time, for restorative rest, then it enslaves [the worker]. - Pope Francis quote.](/img/q/28/12728A-a-person-who-works-should-take-time-rest-spend-time-pope-francis.png)
A person who works should take time to rest, to spend time with family, to enjoy [life], to read, listen to music, play a sport. When work doesn't allow room for healthy leisure time, for restorative rest, then it enslaves [the worker].
![More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little free time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife—and watch TV. - Robert Maynard Hutchins quote.](/img/q/47/23547A-more-free-time-means-more-time-waste-worker-who-used-robert-maynard-hutchins.png)
More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little free time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife—and watch TV.
![Tell me how a people uses its leisure and I will tell you the quality of its civilization. - Count Maurice Maeterlinck quote.](/img/q/48/23548A-tell-me-how-a-people-uses-its-leisure-i-will-count-maurice-maeterlinck.png)
Tell me how a people uses its leisure and I will tell you the quality of its civilization.
![Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes quote.](/img/q/49/23549A-leisure-is-the-mother-of-philosophy-thomas-hobbes.png)
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
![There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.](/img/q/51/23551A-there-can-be-no-high-civilization-where-there-is-not-henry-ward-beecher.png)
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
![We may divide the struggles of the human race into two chapters: first, the fight to get leisure; and second, what to do with our leisure when we have won it. Like all blessings, leisure is a bad thing unless it is well used. - James Garfield quote.](/img/q/52/23552A-we-may-divide-the-struggles-of-human-race-into-two-james-garfield.png)
We may divide the struggles of the human race into two chapters: first, the fight to get leisure; and second, what to do with our leisure when we have won it. Like all blessings, leisure is a bad thing unless it is well used.
![Leisure is the time for doing something useful. - Benjamin Franklin quote.](/img/q/53/23553A-leisure-is-the-time-for-doing-something-useful-benjamin-franklin.png)
Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
![To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/54/23554A-to-be-able-to-fill-leisure-intelligently-is-last-product-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.