“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never”
“Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.”
George Allen
“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
“Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.”
“In their view, even leisure time had to be used to the full, so as to extract the maximum of entertainment and relaxation with the minimum of delay.”
Michael Ende