Quotes About Leisure

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.

Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

Man does not cease to play because he grows old, he grows old because he ceases to play.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

All men would still really like to own a train set.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.