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Quotes About Leisure

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face
~ Quentin Crisp
If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
~ Quentin Crisp
Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.
~ Oscar Wilde
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
~ R. H. Tawney
I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.
~ Ralph Nader
Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
~ Raymond Cruz
Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.
~ Rose Macaulay
I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.
~ Rose McGowan
I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!
~ Saffron Burrows
I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.
~ Sandy Duncan
I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.
~ Scott Adams
God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
~ Seamus Heaney
I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.
~ Steve Ballmer
If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.
~ Terry Eagleton
I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan.
~ Terry O'Quinn
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
~ William Feather
It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
~ William Shakespeare
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain
Never ever work! Do everything for fun. Remember, life is for joy!
~ Debasish Mridha
All work and no play will make you sad and grey!
~ Habeeb Akande
Work hard to play harder.
~ Linda Rawson
When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana