Quotes About Leisure

When I retired in 2006, I stayed for a further two years in England. I stayed because I wanted to be in England without being a footballer, without the rhythm. I wanted to enjoy the city.

I am mostly at home and I do my housework, I read and I love watching documentaries. In short, I love staying at home.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing.

I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that's not very productive.

My weekday wake-up time is 7:30, but I love staying in bed longer.

Staying home and watching French movies is what I normally like to do.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

An even more telling side of that blindness was the way White spent his leisure time in those days. When not writing his editorials, designed either to puff Kansas business or elect the Republican ticket, he would pass the time composing "dialect verse

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy

Quietistic meditation is easier, naturally, but a person who practices it will turn out to be just as insecure and petty as someone not enlightened at all. What is equally important, "leisure-time" meditation that separates our spiritual life from our activities is merely hiding from reality. You cannot come home from the job and suddenly turn on a meditation experience.

The enemy in retirement was that nothing you did seemed to cause you to look forward to anything. Weekends were the same as weekdays, and payday was just a notice from your bank that the check had arrived as usual.

Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.

The walking-stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. But it is also a weapon and it meets a felt need of barbarian man on that ground.

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

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.

I've obtained the human life of leisure and opportunity, Free from any deficiencies; I follow you, the Three Jewels. Always I take you to my crown; From this very day, pray be my refuge.

Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?

It's cool now to play golf.

The key to life is hobbies, otherwise you're asking for trouble. You know what they always say—if Hitler only had a train set…

I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.