Quotes About Leisure

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Children there rowed boats, climbed trees, picked mussels, ending every summer day cleaned up and carrying the ice in the silver bucket, the Goldfish crackers, and the Scotch, down to the dock at six, where they'd stand ranged along the splintering wooden boards looking down at the white bodies of the flashing fish, while the grown-ups behind them drank as the sun fell into the sea. The Miltons of Crockett's Island.

People here don't care about the countryside in any deep way, she says. They just want nice walks, nice views, and a tearoom. That

The golf links lie so near the millThat almost every dayThe laboring children can look outAnd watch the men at play.

As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework.

No schoolgirl modesty here! Did I bring you to my house, and teach you the ways of my collection, to see you colour? Well, no more of that. Here is work, not leisure. You will soon forget the substance, in the scrutiny of the form.

Smart people still enjoy wide open spaces, much more even than their less bright neighbors, but when they hang with friends they're less happy. One theory as to why is that they feel like they're wasting time.

Born to golf. Forced to work.

Gone golfin'... be back dark thirty.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Discretion is a pastime for other people.

Q: Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants? A: In case he got a hole in one.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

Free time keeps me going.

When I have extra time I just go out to the Hamptons. I have a house in Southampton I go out to as much as I possibly can.

I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time.

I'm so lazy. I'm on the road all the time working, so when I'm at home, my perfect date is just laying on the couch!

You'd be surprised how much free time I have.

I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you'd be like, "what the hell?"

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.