Quotes About Leisure

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Man's most serious activity is play.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.