Top Leisure Quotes
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
George Eastman
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
Swami Sivananda
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Sean Bean
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams 
68% of people like this quote
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
George Eastman
68% of people like this quote
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
Swami Sivananda
60% of people like this quote
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Sean Bean
58% of people like this quote
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
58% of people like this quote
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Anthony Burgess
58% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Cyril Connolly
56% of people like this quote
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