Quotes About Leisure

That's because your idea of exercise is reading in bed until your arms hurt from holding up your Kindle

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish.

If you play and work hard then rest hard.

Because it is less structured than work leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work.

A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life and also a personal life complete with noncompetitive leisure has never really taken hold.

I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Im so bored I'm this close to spraining my own ankle if it means NO MORE MUSEUMS. Besides, Ive got a tan to work on!

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

It is essential to our well-being and to our lives that we play and enjoy life. Every day do something that makes your heart sing.

A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made the novel seem much shorter than it truly was.

A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made the novel seem much shorter than it truly was. I

The men who are really busiest have the most leisure for everything.

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.

There are idlers and idlers, who form a contrast.

Life is too short to work so hard.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.