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 challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”
    —Guy Debord (b. 1931)

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