Quotes About Leisure

My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache . . . unless you play golf.

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

I don't have to worry about the money at all, really. My dad left me with this trust fund. I can sit home and watch the viewscreen and drink vodka martinis, or go out and play hovertennis. It's terrific, what a life.

waking up in bed on a morning with nothing urgent to do, a pile of books next to you, and a mug of coffee within arm's reach could be described as good.

When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.

Movies are about escape.

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

I let my summer days pass idly on.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

She shook her head. "Matias, do you ever relax? Do you even know what that word means?" He smiled. "I do. I have even been known to allow myself a sensible chuckle on occasion.

la misma Roma no podía triunfar ninguna democracia sana con un proletariado que se corrompía diariamente en el ocio y con la percepción de subsidios.

The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.

Working chappies fail to understand the minds of men of leisure