Quotes About Leisure

but though idle people might call it work, working people would call it play.

He read whenever he could as he walked to and from his work.

This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The

The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Wrapped in his coat, a book in his lap, the traveler took his ease, the hours slipping by unnoticed.

Evenings like these bore the joyful promise of a new sunny day of loosely ordered leisure and ornamented with countless and closely packed prospects of pleasant encounters.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. Benjamin Franklin

Live.....Laugh.....GOLF

Life can't be all work. There's a whole wide world to enjoy.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

If I thought I was only doing one thing—running—I would be naïve. Even in my leisure, when strapped to a web-enabled device, I'm furiously multitasking and, in a very positive way, highly distracted.

There is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats… or with boats…. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

There's nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.

No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.

You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.

I have not the least sympathy for these useless and destructive pastimes, football and politics.