Quotes About Leisure

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching . . . by and large, chores are a thing of the past.

Few people know how to rest these days. Even on vacation, many people rush to cram in as much as they can before returning to their jobs, where they spend twice as much energy catching up on the work and mail that has piled up in their absence. Many of us need vacations just to rest from our vacations! Perhaps we have been looking for rest in the wrong places.

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest variety and greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves.

What I find disturbing in America is the consuming desire for leisure, convenience, and fun. It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets. We have traded eternal truth for momentary self-gratification—worshipping false gods of materialism and humanism instead of the Creator of all things.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.

The alternative to work isn't just idleness. To be ludic is not to be quaaludic. As much as I treasure the pleasure of torpor, it's never more rewarding than when it punctuates other pleasures and pastimes. Nor am I promoting the managed time-disciplined safety-valve called "leisure"; far from it. Leisure is nonwork for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Nul ne devrait jamais travailler. Prolétaires du monde entier, reposez-vous !

La principale différence entre le travail et les loisirs est la suivante : au boulot, au moins, l'avachissement et l'aliénation sont rémunérés.

Le temps libre est principalement consacré à se préparer pour le travail, à revenir du travail, à surmonter la fatigue du travail. Le temps libre est un euphémisme qui désigne la manière dont la main-d'oeuvre se transporte à ses propres frais pour se rendre au labeur et assume l'essentiel de sa propre maintenance et de ses réparations.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf...

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake.

I will tell you the one thing that distinguishes swimming from all other forms of exercise." I listen carefully. "People enjoy it a lot more.

This was a fight not just for the right of access but for the right of recreation, of leisure, no matter what your skin color. Many activists saw pools and beaches as the ultimate symbols of that freedom. In the mingling of bodies, in the act of sharing the same water with others, you can read volumes.

Parties Are for Weekends, Not Politics.

People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

The Light Brigade sat to the left of her: in their early and middle thirties, they devoted most of their free time to the Amanuensis Club, bridge, and getting one-up on each other in the matter of electrical appliances:

The only things that she cares about are a comfortable chair, a good reading light, and enough books and magazines.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Go figure. For me, I might have the leisure to be bored, but not to grow tired of something. Most people can't distinguish between the two.