We already know that the experience of lockdown is a mixed bag. It is increasingly recognised that for many it can be hellish. Enforced leisure - if you are crippled with worry about debts, insecure job prospects, your family's health - is no holiday.

Claire Fox

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

Wisdom Men Great

I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-changing, but it's a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at my leisure, someday.

Adam-Troy Castro

Money Life Write

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier

True T Sure

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

Ainsley Earhardt

Time Life Change

It's too bad that 'Dragon Ball,' which I drew for a very long time, has ended. Just kidding. I'm incredibly glad. Now I can just leisurely sit around!

Akira Toriyama

Time Which Very

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Alan Ball

Time You Vision

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Aldous Huxley

Good World Who

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Aldous Huxley

Time Yin Won

Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.

Alice Ripley

Time Tim Theater

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

Women Men Wish

Most people fill their schedules with work, and leisure only happens when there's time left over. But it's impossible to live a rich and full life without doing things that give you joy. Forget about productivity once in a while and give yourself permission to goof off.

Amy Morin

Work Time Life

Goa is always leisure for me; it's become my home away from home.

Amyra Dastur

Home Ways Way

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

Andrea Bocelli

Very Tis Tie

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

Andrew Davies

TV Tin Ten

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

Andrew O'Hagan

Work Men Good

One of my pet peeves in athleisure today is clothes that make a woman feel square and one-dimensional.

Anna Kaiser

Pet Men Woman

I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money.

Anna Wintour

Women Money Men

Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.

Anne Robinson

Travel Time Car

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Anthony Burgess

War Peace Men

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

Men Life Which

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Aristotle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Aristotle

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.

Ben Shapiro

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Benjamin Disraeli

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Benjamin Franklin

I actually started, as a result of 'Scandal,' instead of wearing a bathrobe, wearing sweaters around at home in my leisure. And my poor husband was very confused! I said, 'It's what Olivia Pope does'.

Betsy Beers

I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.

Billy Bob Thornton

The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

Billy Campbell

I love the ath-leisure look, but I'm also super inspired by anime, and I love Japanese culture so much.

Bishop Briggs

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

Boy George

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Branch Rickey

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

Branch Rickey

Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.

Brendan I. Koerner

Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.

Brian Sutton-Smith

Obviously, there were ways to have made a lot more money and to have had more leisure. But I wouldn't choose that. I feel rich in ways that are unique and that I would never trade for tens of millions of dollars in the bank.

Bryan Stevenson

I am finally a lady of leisure, and it suits me fine. For the first time in almost 10 decades, I don't have an agenda or a structure to my days.

Carol Channing

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.

Charles Sturt

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Cher Wang

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.

Christo

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Christopher Dawson

I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with.

Christopher Priest

We already know that the experience of lockdown is a mixed bag. It is increasingly recognised that for many it can be hellish. Enforced leisure - if you are crippled with worry about debts, insecure job prospects, your family's health - is no holiday.

Claire Fox