Quotes About Leisure

the shallow waters too warm to be refreshing.

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

Friends, I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.

Take time every day to do something silly.

When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like.

Sex - the poor man's polo.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

It you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Retirement must be wonderful. I mean, you can suck in your stomach for only so long.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

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

Space is space,life is life,everywhere is the same. But as for me, sustained by the toil of others, lacking civilized vices with which to fill my leisure, I pamper my melancholy and try to find in the vacuousness of the desert a special historical poignancy. Vain, idle, misguided! How fortunate that no one sees me!