Quotes About Leisure

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She agreed with Mark Twain that golf was a "good walk spoiled.

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

Like the rest of the team, neither of us had wanted to do anything much, other than eat and sleep and enjoy the pure mechanics of being alive. But now he was here.

'Tis as cheap sitting as standing.

You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything." Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy.

When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.

I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.

Qué caras! ¡Qué tipos! Era la burguesía anodina y zafia de todo el Globo pronta a volcarse en las entrañas del paquebote para recrearse en un viaje de circunvolución mediterránea que iba a durar un mes y del que volverían tan anodinos y tan zafios como se habían marchado, pero llenos de la soberbia y de la presunción que dan ciertos nombres de leyenda a quien los pronuncia sin estar habituado a ellos.

Del mismo modo hay que saber descansar, dejar lo que uno está haciendo y poner la cabeza en otra cosa que relaje, distraiga, divierta.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

Men stayed in bed for hours on end, or hung around in stairwells and courtyards. "Nothing is urgent anymore; they have forgotten how to hurry.

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

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Yet I was feeling far from overworked.

the pre-lunch diary is unblemished by obligation

It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.