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Quotes About Leisure

It takes me a long time to unwind when I'm on holiday - at least three or four days.
~ Monica Galetti
I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.
~ Margo Martindale
Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs.
~ Craig Sager
Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
~ Carl Honore
The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.
~ Erik Erikson
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.
~ Evan Esar
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
~ Alice Walker
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
All work and no play is not good for the soul
~ Felix Sabates
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
~ Marc Newson
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
~ Robert Rodriguez
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
~ Brian Sutton-Smith
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
~ George MacDonald
I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
~ Pierre Reverdy
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
~ Charles de Gaulle
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
~ Phillip Lopate
A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.
~ Roald Amundsen
All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.
~ William Randolph Hearst
It is not really work if you are having fun.
~ Pierre Omidyar
I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.
~ Vince McMahon
A man works hard all week to keep his pants off all weekend.
~ Mr. Krabs
If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.
~ Celia Cruz
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
~ Martin Fowler
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
~ Renzo Piano