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Quotes About Leisure

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.
~ Nick Saban
I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.
~ Neil Simon
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
~ Moliere
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
~ Nan Fairbrother
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
~ Theodor Adorno
I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
~ Catherine Deneuve
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
~ Samuel Johnson
Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.
~ M.C. Beaton
We work to earn our leisure.
~ Aristotle
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
~ Madame Roland
Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.
~ Monty Woolley
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."
~ Gene Perret
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
~ Gene Perret
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
~ Ezra Pound
Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.
~ Dagobert Runes
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
~ Albert Einstein
To be at ease is better than to be at business.
~ Baltasar Gracian
X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
~ Alan Bennett
I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
~ Geddy Lee
Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
~ Jimmy Buffett
I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
~ Quentin Crisp
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.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.