Quotes About Leisure

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

In Sun Valley, people play tennis and then go for a hike. You should be too tired to go for a hike!

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.

Golf is a good time, valued time.

taking several short trips in a year is likely to give you more peak experiences—and grateful memories—than one long but unremarkable vacation.

Rabbits never drove fast. They like to enjoy the view, didn't much care for speed and besides, it was wasteful of fuel. If you want to get somewhere a long way away, just leave early. Days, if that's required. Or, as Samuel C. Rabbit had it: 'nhffnfhfiifhfnnffhrhrfhrf' or 'to travel joyously is better than to arrive.

Happy hour was another popular activity

The anxiety specific to leisure and the Coast. Too many forms of natural beauty artificially brought together. Too many villas, too many flowers. Villegiatura, nomenklatura: the same struggle. The same artificial privilege, whether it be that of the political bureaucracy or the luxuriance of lifestyle. Nature putrefied by leisure, purged of all barbarity, sickeningly comfortable - one day perhaps this dream climate, this heatwave of luxury will explode into one last forest fire.

Just as the waste of time nourishes the hell of leisure, so technological wastes nourish the hell of war. Wastes which incarnate the secret violence of this society, uncoerced and non-degradable defecation.

chaise lounge' days, when, too tired to lift even a paintbrush, she would lie about nibbling candied rose leaves.

All I really want to do is go to the book store , drink coffee and read

A meaningless life for a human being has none of the dignity of animal unselfconsciousness; we cannot simply eat, sleep, hunt and reproduce - we are meaning-seeking creatures. The Western world has done away with religion but not with religious impulses; we seem to need some higher purpose, some point to our lives - money and leisure, social progress, are just not enough.

you believe that if every person had enough money, enough work, enough leisure, enough learning, that if they were not oppressed by those above them, or fearful of those below them, humankind would be perfected? Byron asked this in his negative drawl

La vida ambulante es la que mejor me conviene. Ir de camino con buen tiempo, por un país hermoso, sin llevar prisa, y tener un objeto agradable por término del viaje, he ahí, de todos los modos de vivir, el que más me agrada.

The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts,... ...but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject.

vivía en tan grato sosiego distribuyendo el tiempo entre mi trabajo, mi instrucción y mis placeres

Bir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmeye çal??m?yorum; art?k zaman? geçti. Asl?nda bu denli çok bilginin, yaÅŸam?n mutluluÄŸuna yard?m ettiÄŸini hiç görmedim; ama kendime, hiçbir güçlük duymadan zevk alaca??m ve bana y?k?mlar?m? unutturacak tatl? ve s?radan eÄŸlenceler ar?yorum.

Dans cet âge heureux où rien ne marquait les heures, rien n'obligeait à les compter, le temps n'avait d'autre mesure que l'amusement et l'ennui.

I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.