Quotes About Leisure

I love weekends. Just like everyone else, I get to rest on weekends and go out with friends. I hate Mondays.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

I love bowling almost as much as I love not bowling.

I bought all those [fitness] videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.

I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff.

one of the lounge chairs. Serena

How much leisure, enjoyment, and reward do you require, so that you feel like more than a beast of burden?

Não é mau sujeito, esse teu segundo… Muito ao contrário. Sabe, meu bem, cada vez simpatizo mais com ele… Entre nós dois, tu está muito bem servida. Ele para penas e cuidados, eu para a gente vadiar…

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.

Leisure cannot be achieved at all when it is sought as a means to an end, even though that end be "the salvation of Western civilization". Celebration of God in worship cannot be done unless it is done for its own sake. That most sublime form of affirmation of the world as a whole is the fountainhead of leisure.

Leisure, it must be remembered, is not a Sunday afternoon idyll, but the preserve of freedom, of education and culture, and of that undiminished humanity which views the world as a whole.

The great political questions take their place in the psychic economy of the typical citizen with those leisure-hour interests that have not yet attained the rank of hobbies, and with the subjects of irresponsible conversation.

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.