leisure

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

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long. , , , This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Work is . . . becoming suffused with leisure values. . . . Executives on an expense account hardly know whether they are at leisure or at work; they assume it must be the latter since they are getting paid for what they do. The same executives, pushed into some time-consuming civic activity, have only the somewhat melancholy reassurance of receiving no compensation to testify to this being leisure.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.