Quotes About Leisure

We need rests called naps And rests called play, We need little moving rests Called getting away.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.

I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.

There is no such thing as time to a man in a summer vacation.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

Se stie insa ca sursa tuturor greutatilor moderne este ceea ce numesc eu inertia masculina. Problemele in casnicie au aparut numai dupa ce barbatii nu au mai plecat pe mare si au inceput in schimb sa bocaneasca pe langa casa in weekenduri. Barbatii au inteles si ei in sfarsit chestia asta si incearca sa umple tot acest timp liber care le ramane cu treburi urgente imaginare.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

What sort of brainwashing, he had wondered, had created a world in which people worked fifty or sixty hours a week, every week, no matter how beautiful the day outside, no matter what thoughts they were having? Where would the paintings come from? The novels and sculptures? The music?

The morning sun is spilling into the penthouse. Rigby, a gray rug of cat, lies sprawled on her back on the sofa with her paws stretched high above her head.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. —Mary Poppins

Bedtime could only be followed by TV. Or drinking.

Eat, drink, smoke, swim in the ocean, play tennis, golf, and poker, watch polo, read trash, listen to pop singers, occasionally attend the theatre, opera, ballet, charity bashes, and private shindigs, buy clothes and trinkets, write to old friends, party with new friends, and sleep. I think that about covers it.

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

When you're young you have to invent tasks to fill the time, while I can kill an hour just making myself some tea. She

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying.

I only make movies to finance my fishing'.