Quotes About Relaxation

I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.

Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men… Some of the best conversations I've ever had with men have been over a cigar.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

I just chill. I don't stand outside too much. I do what I gotta do and chill, man, know what I'm saying? That's all. It's cool.

the one and only key to a successful nap was to break the thread of consciousness just long enough for the switch to be thrown to "off." When it got thrown to "on" again, even if it was only a few minutes later, the brain–body system rebooted itself, like a fucked-up computer that just needs to be unplugged from the wall for ten seconds and restarted in order to come back to life in clean working order.

Modern English has given us two terms we need to explain this phenomenon: "geeking out" and "vegging out." To geek out on something means to immerse yourself in its details to an extent that is distinctly abnormal—and to have a good time doing it. To veg out, by contrast, means to enter a passive state and allow sounds and images to wash over you without troubling yourself too much about what it all means.

The best we can do is to be good at something, or a few things. We come home tired, and we feel the need to veg out—a recent coinage, meaning to drop voluntarily into a kind of vegetative coma, typically in front of the TV. I should know; in my family, I am infamous for my lowbrow tastes in entertainment, my sluggishness to attend art films and theatrical productions.

his idea of a satisfying outdoor experience had been to saunter out onto the terrace of a European hotel to smoke cigars and drink brandy.

People who watched too many movies about hackers had all sorts of ludicrous ideas about what they were capable of. In general, they hugely overestimated hackers' ability to do certain things. But there was one area in which hackers were routinely underestimated, and that was lock picking. For them, picking locks was a nice way to kick back and relax after a long day of doing pen tests on corporate networks.

had to tell Jimmy to lighten up

And here I am again, not convalescing this time but decompressing, which is a lot better than decomposing.

The wineries attract tourists who like to talk about wine. I mean, do I talk about beer? It's beer. Drink it and shut up.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?

Why study or try to change the world on a Friday afternoon when you could be out enjoying the sun?