Quotes About Leisure

I've spoken to people who have retired once they lost the enjoyment of a long day in the field or going to the gym. If I lose that, it's time to go.

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, 'Man, that's the life!'

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men… Some of the best conversations I've ever had with men have been over a cigar.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

I just chill. I don't stand outside too much. I do what I gotta do and chill, man, know what I'm saying? That's all. It's cool.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

There are only two industries. This has always been true....There is the industry of things, and the industry of entertainment....After people have the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment. Everything.

But there was one area in which hackers were routinely underestimated, and that was lock picking. For them, picking locks was a nice way to kick back and relax after a long day of doing pen tests on corporate networks.

The best we can do is to be good at something, or a few things. We come home tired, and we feel the need to veg out—a recent coinage, meaning to drop voluntarily into a kind of vegetative coma, typically in front of the TV. I should know; in my family, I am infamous for my lowbrow tastes in entertainment, my sluggishness to attend art films and theatrical productions.