Quotes About Leisure

I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always dispossessed in comparison with the apex.

Often, one compensates by playing an instrument, or going hiking, or joining some club. In other words, one creates a new type of society, when not working, in which one can feel more at home.

la característica de una clase privilegiada es siempre la misma: la posesión del ocio, como única gran recompensa de su condición.

No matter how the economy and sociology of the neighboring sectors of the Galaxy changed, there was always an elite; and it is always the characteristic of an elite that it possesses leisure as the great reward of its elite-hood.

Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don't have to prove anything, I'm not rushing everywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.

All the women I know write, paint, sculpt, or do crafts in their leisure time—which is very scarce. Art has replaced knitting.

People come and go, and even the closest members of the family eventually disperse. It's useless to cling to anybody or anything because everything in the universe tends toward separation, chaos, and entropy, not cohesion. I have chosen a simpler life, with fewer material things and more leisure, fewer worries and more fun, fewer social commitments and more true friendship, less fuss and more silence.

He optado por una vida simple, con menos cosas materiales y más tiempo ocioso, menos preocupaciones y más diversión, menos compromisos sociales y más amistad verdadera, menos bochinche y más silencio.

En español, al retiro del trabajo lo llamamos «jubilación», término que deriva de «júbilo», porque se parte de la base que es la época ideal en que uno hace lo que le da la gana. Ojalá fuera así. A menudo eso no sucede cuando el cuerpo y el presupuesto no dan para hacer lo que a uno le dé la gana. Además, está comprobado que rara vez el ocio hace la felicidad.

You've got to enjoy yourself. 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.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

I have played games like Angry Birds and, you know, Plants vs. Zombies and things like that just for fun on the phone and everything.

I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

I really like to have a moment alone at the house, either in the morning or when I come home from work, when I can just zone out at my computer, relax, stare out the window, get into a 'Game of Thrones' episode, go up on my roof, whatever, then go out to dinner.

Usually, if I can't fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with an episode of 'The Real Housewives.' I always have a couple books on my bedside table in various stages of completion.

Florida: God's waiting room.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.