Quotes About Leisure

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

The hill is like an old woman, all her human obligations met, who sits at work day after day, in a kind of rapt leisure, at an intricate embroidery. She has time for all things. Because she does not expect ever to be finished, she is endlessly patient with details. She perfects flower and leaf, feather and song, adorning the briefest life in great beauty as though it were meant to last forever.

Books were a dependable pleasure.

My wish is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

Members of the gentry and nobility migrated to Bath each summer to stroll along the Grand Parade, drive around the Royal Crescent, cavort at crowded balls and gossip over tea about whom they had seen and with whom; taking the waters for real or imagined complaints was an optional extra

wealthy, privileged and bored by the undemanding

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey SAT through life.

There his chief enterprises are reading and doing nothing.

The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.

I owe my life to my hobbies—especially stamp collecting

Allan decided he needed a little recreation. Something light hearted and non-committal. A quickie.

She picked up the lazy cat. "I'll just hang out down here with Cat-Mandu.

I know it's my day off," she said to DJ, who looked up as she threw herself into her chair. "I have reasons for wasting my life in this room.

Wie man weiß, gibt es ja nichts auf der ganzen Welt, das langweiliger ist, als Sport zu machen, und wenn etwas noch langweiliger ist, dann natürlich Sportlern bei der Ausübung ihrer langweiligen Sportarten zuzusehen.

Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown, Why, one day in the country, Is worth a month in town...

Bookshelves of summer houses are filled with dishy nonsense. They indicate how a person understands time is meant to be wasted.

Ciò di cui un clown ha bisogno è tregua, la finzione di ciò che gli altri chiamano tempo libero. Ma questi altri non capiscono che la finzione del tempo libero per un clown consiste appunto nel dimenticare il suo lavoro, e non lo capiscono proprio perché loro si occupano della cosiddetta arte proprio durante il loro tempo libero.

I we open up sport to women, it sends a message that wanting leisure time is not being selfish or unreasonable.

Women need time and space to play - particularly when we work so hard

His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her".