Quotes About Leisure

Eén van de belangrijkste factoren voor geestelijke groei is immers tijd om na te denken en vrije tijd om uitdrukking te kunnen geven aan je gedachten.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Die Götter haben Menschen nicht gemacht, damit sie arbeiten, bis sie vor Müdigkeit umfallen, sondern damit sie sich des Lebens freuen und dass sie Zeit haben, Feste auszurichten und genügend zu rasten.

Where people work less they buy more . . . business is the exchange of goods. Goods are bought only as they meet needs. Needs are filled only as they are felt. They make themselves felt largely in the leisure hours.

The Hoover Commission agreed. Leisure was not, in fact, an excuse to relax. It was a hole to fill up with more wants (which, in turn, required more work to pay for them). Somehow the consumer solution satisfied both the industrial hedonists hell-bent on achieving a material paradise and the puritans who feared that unoccupied leisure would lead to sin. In fact, the new consumerism promoted all the deadly sins (lust, covetousness, gluttony, pride, envy) except perhaps anger and sloth.

Instead of leisure being simply "relaxed activity," it was transformed into an opportunity for increased consumption—even consumption of leisure itself (as in travel and vacations).

the beauty of doing nothing

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

On your birthday . . . Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax ? you deserve it! Best Wishes for a Very Relaxing Birthday.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

Business is leisure when you find pleasure in it.

I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.