Quotes About Leisure

Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.

Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

La crudeltà è un lusso da oziosi, come le droghe e le camicie di seta.

I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very hello trees, hello flowers. It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game.

Where are you going on vacation?" "Nowhere. I'm going to read. I love reading.

Most of us are lucky to see Paris once in a lifetime. Make the most of it by doing as little as possible. Walk a little, get lost a bit, eat, catch a breakfast buzz, have a nap, try and have sex if you can, just not with a mime. Eat again. Lounge around drinking coffee. Maybe read a book. Drink some wine, walk around a bit more, eat, repeat. See? It's easy.

The carioca is a role model and the ideal state of being is his. What is a carioca?. Simply put, he's a lovable scamp, a guy who somehow finds a way, always, to avoid legitimate toil in favor of the popular Rio diversions of going to the beach, flirting, making love, dancing, and hanging out. He is a man who survives on charm and what are called jetinhos, improvisational, amiable hustler/joker strategies to avoid work and keep doing what he's doing, which is basically nothing.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?

Greystock brought with him two guns, two fishing-rods, a man-servant, and a huge hamper from Fortnum and Mason's.

He ain't got nothing to do," said the housemaid to the cook, "and as for reading, they say that some of the young ones can read all day sometimes, and all night too; but, bless you, when you're nigh eighty, reading don't go for much." The housemaid was right as to Mr. Harding's reading. He was not one who had read so much in his earlier days as to enable him to make reading go far with him now that he was near eighty

Lo scopo del lavoro è quello di guadagnarsi il tempo libero.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously.

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity.

the first principle of all action is leisure.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

the use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure;

This is the main question, with what activity one's leisure is filled.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Many people pursue a regular and uninterrupted course of idleness in the evenings because they think that there is no alternative to idleness but the study of literature; and they do not happen to have a taste for literature. This is a great mistake.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.