Quotes About Leisure

To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy; and Common-wealth, the mother of Peace, and Leisure: Where first were great and flourishing Cities, there was first the study of Philosophy.

Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory.

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

I'm retired — goodbye tension, hello pension!

Life begins at retirement.

Retirement: World's longest coffee break.

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

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

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.

It's Saturday — should I just sit down and do nothing or lay down and do nothing?

Skipping gives the adult a well-deserved break and lets the inner child be in charge for a while.

Laß uns faul in allen Sachen, nur nicht faul zu Lieb und Wein, nur nicht faul zur Faulheit sein.

MEN AND WOMEN who did almost nothing for a large part of the year tend not to figure prominently in history books. Studies and museums naturally highlight enterprise and undervalue the art of remaining idle for months on end.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

I believe that if you truly understand the importance of relaxation, you will make time for it in your schedule.

It was an unhurried pursuit. I did not want information. I wanted to be cultivated, and thus I read at leisure with lingering appreciation.

Never work.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

There was also a bottom shelf piled up with cheap editions of detective novels. Chips enjoyed these. Sometimes he took down Vergil or Xenophon and read for a few moments, but he was soon back again with Doctor Thorndyke or Inspector French.

I suppose I could still read Virgil or Sophocles with the help of a dictionary, but I do not do so, because it would give me no pleasure