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He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.