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When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby.
-Yiddish Proverb
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
-Proverb
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How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
-Proverb
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Rest breeds rust.
-Proverb
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
-Aristotle
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
-Aristotle
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Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
-Antoine Arnauld
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
-W. H. Auden
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
-Natalie Clifford Barney
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Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.
-Bible
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
-Gerald Brenan
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Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
-Martin Buber
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
-William Cowper
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
-William H. Davies
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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
-S. W. Duffield
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If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.
-Ronald Dunn
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
-Benjamin Franklin
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He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
-Benjamin Franklin
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
-Baltasar Gracian
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If we don't come apart; we will come apart.
-Vance Havner
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If you rest, you rust.
-Helen Hayes
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The busier we are the more leisure we have.
-William Hazlitt
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Books about Rest, Leisure
