Quotes About Leisure

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.

The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

During his eight years as president, at Camp David and in the White House screening room, Reagan watched 374 movies, an average of nearly one a week, though often more.

Many people work very hard at the things they do for fun.

It's Friday; you ain't got no job… you ain't got shit to do

Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a religion!

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

Raoden turned to regard the large Dula. "What does it matter? It's not like we have anything pressing to do. It's actually quite pleasant up here—you should just sit back and enjoy it." An ominous crash came from the clouds above them, and Raoden felt a wet drop splat against his head. "Fantastic," Galladon grumbled. "I'm enjoying myself already.

Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

But Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

90 percent of regrets fall into one of six categories: education, career, romance, parenting, self-improvement, and leisure, I've heard many research participants echo Saunders in regretting failures of kindness.

As Stuart Brown says, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.

Tatsächlich hat der arbeitende Mensch heute nicht mehr die Muße, sein Leben Tag für Tag wirklich sinnvoll zu gestalten.Wahrhaft menschliche Beziehungen zu seinen Mitmenschen kann er sich nicht leisten; es würde den Marktwert seiner Arbeit herabsetzen. Es fehlt ihm an Zeit, etwas anderes zu sein als eine Maschine.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre, to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, There goes a Sainte-Terrer, a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.

Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.