Quotes About Leisure

The rest of the day they spent blowing soap bubbles from the veranda.

Literally, my job consisted of getting loaded, lounging, partying, working out, and using the trucks as motel rooms.

Up until 1950 most families' discretionary income did not cover much more than an occasional meal away from home; a beer or two after work; a weekly trip to the movies, amusement park, or beach; and perhaps a yearly vacation, usually spent at the home of relatives. Few households had washing machines and dryers. Refrigerators had only tiny spaces for freezing ice and had to be defrosted at least once a week. Few houses had separate bedrooms for all the children.

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays…

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced [robots] wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

Duke est desipere in loco [it is pleasant to act foolishly from time to time—a line from Horace].

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

I love being in bed almost as much as I love food.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

The amount of work per capita increases with the evolution of culture and the amount of leisure per capita decreases.

No group on earth has more leisure time than hunters and gatherers, who spend it primarily on games, conversation and relaxing.

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?" "But one day you might wish you had

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?' My

Hudepohl beer in his hand.

wine o'clock

on the front porch on the squeaky rocker, eating with one hand,

Life is too short, and cigars are too expensive, to smoke them for any reason other than enjoyment.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.