Quotes About Leisure

"Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel"

Fuck golf anyway. Stupid goddamn game, chasing a ball around a perfectly good cow pasture.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.

lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired

John J. Raskob was likewise floundering. Although he had enough money to do nothing more than laze about in the Palm Beach sun, he was not happy unless his time was fully occupied.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

People who cannot find time for recreation are sooner or later to find time for illness.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

one never lazes about more happily than when one has no idea where to start, in the face of all one has to do, and one never works more happily than when one actually has nothing on hand'.31 But that could hardly have been less true of him at just that moment. Not

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

All I do is go to the movies.

Amusement, on the other hand, is sought for the sake of pleasure and is often carried to excess; it absorbs the energies that are required for useful work and thus proves a hindrance to life's true success.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

la vida se reduce a comer bien y saber pasar el tiempo entre comidas.

Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture.

To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.

To saunter is a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.

sleeping sprawled out on the bed

Okay, here is the problem," I said. "Assignment means schoolwork, and Hawaii means vacation. And children do not actually like to mix those two items.

Sitting aimlessly in bedrooms- often on the bed itself- is another characteristic feature of the English holidays. The meal was over and it was only twenty five past seven. 'The evening stretches before us,' Viola said gloomily.

about things you merely like? Would you rather learn how to plant a garden, work with friends to paint a house, or just have a great day with

At Coucy's level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out—to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries were served from which live birds were released to be caught by hawks unleashed in the banquet