Quotes About Leisure

bikini with a short terrycloth cover-up over it.

To raise it all to artistry, Barak and Greldik ordered their men to lounge indolently on the decks of their ships, drinking ale and playing dice.

I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as Mon in three different nations. I have seen 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric Slide. I have seen sunsets that looked computer-enhanced. I have (very briefly) joined a conga line.

We're a family that takes its home entertainment very seriously.

and sipping hazelnut espresso and watching, on the cartridge-viewing system that occupied half the

My toughest decisions had been whether to catch the afternoon showing of Mrs. Doubtfire or play bingo.

Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up...

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?

You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

A large proportion of the population of religious countries pass their lives at leisure, supported by the patient labour of the devout.

Drake was finishing his game of bowls;

I have no idea who dreamed up the idiotic notion that summer vacations require light reading. Just the opposite, since the light books get read—if any reading's done at all—before bedtime, after the office work and house work, when we lack the concentration required for heavier fare.

He became a champion napper.

Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

Es hace poco que contamos con la tecnología necesaria para convertir el holgazaneo en una forma de vida; hemos cogido nuestros cuerpos vigorosos y resistentes de cazadores-recolectores y los hemos dejado caer en un mundo artificial de ocio.

hemos cogido nuestros cuerpos vigorosos y resistentes de cazadores-recolectores y los hemos dejado caer en un mundo artificial de ocio.

Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.

This book Is intended to be read in bed. Please do not attempt to read it anywhere else.

He had no responsibilities, not even a motor car, for his tastes were surprisingly simple. If he happened to be spending an evening at the country club, and a rainstorm came down, he did not worry about getting home. He would sit by the fire and chuckle to see the married members creep away one by one. He would get out his pipe and sleep that night at the club, after telephoning Fuji not to sit up for him.

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.

What it is to be a man,' she said, 'and to have days off.

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

On Sundays she got up early in order to have more time to do nothing.