Quotes About Leisure

I think I'm pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop!

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

To say that Windermere is popular with boaters is to flirt recklessly with understatement.

the aforementioned Murchison, who spent the first thirty or so years of his life galloping after foxes, converting aeronautically challenged birds into puffs of drifting feathers with buckshot, and showing no mental agility whatever beyond that needed to read The Times or play a hand of cards. Then he discovered an interest in rocks and became with rather astounding swiftness a titan of geological thinking.

When Americans load up their cars and drive enormous distances to a setting of rare natural splendor what most of them want then they get there is to play a little miniature golf and eat dribbly food (p. 102).

Built in the hope of distracting workers from the peril of drink, it contained a gymnasium, a laboratory, a billiards room, a library, a reading room, and a lecture and concert hall. Never before had manual workers been given a more lavish opportunity to better themselves, an opportunity that many scores enthusiastically seized. One James Waddington, an untutored woolsorter, became a world authority on linguistics and a leading light of the Phonetic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

This is the worst thing to happen to beaches since the Speedo.

I've been thinking Hobbes On a weekend? Well, it wasn't on purpose

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.

There's never enough time to do all the nothing I want.

Boy, I love summer vacation. I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.

Reverend Fathers, my letters do not customarily follow one another so closely, nor are they usually so extensive. The little time I have had has caused both. I have made this one longer only because I have not had the leisure of making it shorter.

In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones—another ancient vacancy profoundly responsible for leisure—they had time for everything: time to think, to talk, time to read, time to wait for a lady!

He always arranged our weekends so we'd never regret wasting our time in any way.

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance, Admire the moments Discuss the late events, Correct our watches by the public clocks. Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

To be valued as a member of masculine Moroccan society, a man is expected to put in his time sitting, thinking, talking, or doing nothing at all.