Quotes About Leisure

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.

We had a small above-ground swimming pool in the back garden and I have a photo of my father sitting in the canoe and sipping whisky while floating in the pool. He had bought it from a second-hand shop and I suspect my dad had been drinking before the purchase as well as after.

The bowling alley is the poor man's country club.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

we can stroll

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.