Quotes About Leisure

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

I don't need to work.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.