Leisure

Leisure, or free time, is time spent away from business, work, and domestic chores. It is also the periods of time before or after necessary activities such as eating, sleeping and, where it is compulsory, education.

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• In our bourgeois Western world total labor has vanquished leisure. Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture—and ourselves.
  • Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture (1948).

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 437.

• And leave us leisure to be good.
  • Thomas Gray, Hymn, Adversity, scene 3.

• No blessed leisure for Love or Hope,
  But only time for Grief.
  • Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt.

• Retired Leisure,
  That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
  • John Milton, Il Penseroso (1631), line 49.

• Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 4, line 232.

• 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, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 125.