Quotes About Leisure

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.

Busman's holiday" is an expression which refers to when people do the same thing on vacation that they do in their everyday lives, such as plumbers who visit the Museum of Sinks, or villains who disguise themselves even on their days off.

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

There are some things of far more value than gold. For instance, a life free from cares or duties of any kind; a life in which every day and every hour brings its share of pleasure and satisfaction, of excitement, of happily earned and well-enjoyed fatigue.

I walk: I prefer walking.

But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

You are very right in supposing how my money would be spent – some of it, at least – my loose cash would certainly be employed in improving my collection of music and books." – Marianne Dashwood

Oh! Who can be ever tired of Bath?

Even pleasure, you know, is fatiguing…

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Prefieres leer a jugar? —La señorita Elizabeth Bennet es una gran lectora y no encuentra placer en nada más.

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows...

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

Miss Eliza Bennet, said Miss Bingley, despises cards. She is a great reader, and has no pleasure in anything else.

I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading.

I declare after all ,there is no enjoyment like reading!!

There is no other enjoyment like reading

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.