Quotes About Leisure

Most municipalities grow up around commerce; there's a harbor, or the train stops there. Venice, CA was founded for fun.

I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

I'm such a lazy traveler. When I go to a city now, I hang out around the venue. I'm boring.

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

log fire, enjoying tea and crumpets

One study of relatively highly paid contractors in Silicon Valley found that free agents didn't really feel free because of the need to be always searching for their next gig and therefore frequently took less leisure time than regular employees.

Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken.

Reality television gave me an amazing feeling of moral and intellectual superiority without actually requiring any effort past moving the dogs to find the remote.

took him to a rink. Andy had watched the other skaters

it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

Idling has always been my strong point.

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. There is nothing objectionable about him; he is simply tired. He does not want to talk; he wants to be let alone, to go to sleep; it does not matter where— anywhere.

Idling has always been my strong point. I take no credit to myself in the matter-it is a gift.

I like idling when I ought not to be idling; not when it is the only thing I have to do.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ? Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow . (Mondial October 19, 2005) Originally published 1886.

I notice that people always make gigantic arrangements for bathing when they are going anywhere near the water, but that they don't bathe much when they are there.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. (Chapter XV)

Being out in a boat on the river Lea, especially on Saturday afternoons, soon makes you smart at handling a craft, and spry at escaping being run down by roughs or swamped by barges; ... But it does not give you style. It was not till I came to the Thames that I got style. My style of rowing is much admired now. People say it is so quaint.

as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land.

I like a bit of fun myself. But not if you've got to pay for it. Where's the fun in that?

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.