"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure." - Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season

"The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise." - BIBLE, Ecclesiasticus 38:24

"When a man's busy, why leisure
Strikes him as wonderful pleasure:
Faith, and at leisure once is he?
Straightway he wants to be busy."
- ROBERT BROWNING, The Glove

"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."
- W.H. DAVIES, Leisure

"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched." - PHAEDRUS, Fables

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level." - BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Conquest of Happiness

"If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work."
- SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV, Part I