Leisure

Leisure

Leisure, or free time, is time spent away from business, work, and domestic chores. It also excludes time spent on necessary activities such as eating, sleeping and, where it is compulsory, education.

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Famous quotes containing the word leisure:

    “The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When at leisure make preparations for a time of need.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)