Quotes About Leisure

We have nothing to do but listen,' said Harriet, and she suddenly realized how happy she was here with Guy, come out of his seclusion to be a companion of this freedom that, having neither past nor future, was a lacuna in time; a gift of leisure that need only be accepted and enjoyed.

Where did the idea come from that we should take life so seriously, anyway? Why should a man be such a slave to his breadwinning? We ought to be able to get a good living, even to make fortunes, and yet have a good time every day of our lives. This idea of being a slave most of the time, and of only occasionally enjoying a holiday, is all wrong.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

To win back my youth, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community.

Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He

A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...

George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

One can sniff the ozone from the pine trees, visit the local bars, eat crawfish, and drink Dixie beer and feel as good as it is possible to feel in this awfully interesting century. And now and then, drive across the lake to New Orleans, still an entrancing city, eat trout amandine at Galatoire's, drive home to my pleasant, uninteresting place, try to figure out how the world got into such a fix, shrug, take a drink, and listen to the frogs tune up.

On Friday Ma came timidly out to the pool wearing her beach robe. In her hands she held her equipment: cup of tea, cigarettes, nasal spray. She struggled with the gate, walked up to the water, and dunked her big toe. "Cold," she said.

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass.

I lean and loafe at my ease...observing a spear of summer grass.

O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.

Advances in science when put to practical use mean more jobs, higher wages, shorter hours, more abundant crops, more leisure for recreation, for study, for learning how to live without the deadening drudgery which has been the burden of the common man for past ages."9

No President who performs his duty faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

It all began with the word itself. Grass. Gramina. The family Gramineae. Grasses. Oh, I responded doubtfully. The picture in my mind was only of a vague area in parks edged with benches for the idle.

When's Recess? Playing Your Way Through the Stresses of Life

commune with nature, play with your children, read, see a movie, or just do nothing.

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.