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Quotes About Leisure

Vacations often go to fast! Enjoy every minute!
~ Catherine Pulsifer
Retirement, a time to enjoy life! A time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, how you want to do it.
~ Catherine Pulsifer
All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
El homo politicus ha cedido el paso al Homo felix. No se trata ya de cambiar la sociedad, sino de vivir mejor en el presente, uno mismo y los suyos, de ganar dinero, de consumir, irse de vacaciones, viajar, distraerse, hacer deporte, arreglar la casa. Los sueños del gran ocaso se han extinguido y la cosa pública ya no motiva las pasiones más que superficialmente.
~ Gilles Lipovetsky
De fato, o marketing político corresponde à instalação das sociedades democráticas na era do consumo moda: foram os valores inerentes à sua ordem, o hedonismo, o lazer, o jogo, a personalidade, o psicologismo, a cordialidade, a simplicidade, o humor, que impulsionaram a reestruturação das declarações políticas.
~ Gilles Lipovetsky
I quickly dressed in my shorts and a t-shirt, before my lazy side could convince me if God wanted us to exercise, He wouldn't have invented the Lifetime Channel.
~ Gina Ardito
Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to get lost in a book.
~ Gina Greenlee
When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like, 'I don't want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you're rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that's amazing.'
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Richard, having modestly but effectually scored the minimum number for the purpose, was in process of deciding whether a green or a canary-coloured Fluffy Hussy should be his boon companion for the rest of the day.
~ Gladys Mitchell
All vampires smoke. Smoking's high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.
~ Glen Duncan
What an agreeable toy! A disc on a string, I unwind it, Casting it out of my hand, and it rewinds in a trice.
~ Goethe
Only "those few, who being attached to no particular occupation themselves," said Smith, "have leisure and inclination to examine the occupations of other people.
~ Gordon S. Wood
I like a good big hall, don't you? I figured to get it big enough to play a game of badminton in. May be that's unnecessarily large, but that's better than being all cramped up, you know.
~ H. C. Bunner, c. 1895
Long-continued practice is necessary to make any one a first-rate player at Battle-door and Shuttle-cock. As this game is an extremely noisy one, it ought never to be played near any one who is sick or happens to be subject to headaches. Like many other games, it is more agreeable when played in the open air.
~ Riddles and Rhymes, 1893
Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill. #Gewurztraminer
~ Steve Miller, born-today.com
Beer is liquid frivolity...
~ Terri Guillemets
Retirement is one great big giant coffee break.
~ Author Unknown
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on a Tuesday.
~ Mike Morley
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
~ Author Unknown
ANGLER: A man who spends rainy days sitting round on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.
~ Author Unknown
Gone fishin' — Be back at dark-thirty!
~ Author Unknown
And it is in games that many men discover their paradise.
~ Robert Lynd
Clarissa: Talbot, it is so delightful to have you back again. I shall now have such charming evenings with you at chess. Talbot: At what? Clarissa: Chess — the king of games. Talbot: Do you call it a game? Ha! ha! No, thankee; life's too short for chess.
~ H. J. Byron, Our Boys, 1875