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:

    “He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true.... The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)