Quotes About Leisure

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

All play and no work makes me a happy girl

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.