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 basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
    —Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)

    “How has he the leisure to be sick
    In such a jostling time?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)