Quotes About Leisure

Yet is it not the heart but the members of play that elevate us above the beasts: the fingers with which we touch the clavichord or the flute, the tongue with which we jest and lie and seduce. Lacking members of play, what is there left for beasts to do when they are bored but sleep?

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

I read a lot for me. But I'm not one of those people who gets 'The New York Times' book review and runs out and buys 10 books and is done with them and passing them out to friends, you know, two weeks later.

When I graduated college, I remember all I really wanted was to make enough money to have a swimming pool, because I love to swim, to grow my own fruit. I wanted to have a little plot where I could grow my own oranges and make enough money where I could to take two weeks off a year. I figured if I had that, it was game over.

I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.

I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing - that's what I'm trying to say.

A typical off day for me, I'm hanging out at the house.

The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like - maybe just eating, hanging out and talking.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.

The money's no better in retirement, but the hours are!

Retirement: World's longest coffee break.

My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.

Work is for people who don't know how to fish.

I told people I was taking a gap year, but the truth was that I wanted to do nothing, absolutely nothing, for as long as possible, maybe for the rest of my life.