Quotes About Leisure

I love hanging out with friends and family, going to the beach or just being a couch potato and binge watching TV shows or watching a good movie.

The perfect thing for me is to be on something I love, where I'm doing it and have enough money not to be poor, and I'm allowed to go on vacation.

Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his board (revealing, as he did so, the fact that beneath his baggy swim trunks—so weighted down with water that they had sunk somewhat dangerously low on his hips—lurked what appeared to be an exceptionally well-formed gluteus maximus)

Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

There was formerly a capacity for lightheartedness and play which has been to some extent inhibited by the cult of efficiency. The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

El tiempo que disfrutas perder no es tiempo perdido

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization .

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

The modern world unlearned us how to enjoy leisure time, making us think we need to be productive in order to be worthy.

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right distributed throughout the community

Back in those less complicated times, there were lots of industries that operated more or less by rote: the old banker's motto, for instance, was "3-6-3": take money in at 3 percent, lend it out at 6 percent, and be on the golf course by 3 P.M.

Whenever I am not filming and not required to travel with work, I spend all my downtime in Scotland.

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV.

We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.

I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!

When I get out of work early, or if I have some time before I go into the studio, I go to Disneyland for a few hours with my siblings. We just have fun, go on all the rides together, and eat all of the good food.

I'm probably going to be retired fishing somewhere in the north of Australia with not a tennis ball in sight.

It's a silly old game.

Caravanning can be as simple or as luxurious as you choose. My own experience is probably not dissimilar to that of many families across the country who also share this hobby.

I don't go to malls. I've just always been a simple person. I hang out, work out. That's what I think is fun.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.