Quotes About Leisure

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

You're not too good for the sleep mask-neck pillow combo! You're not too cool for it!

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

I am not usually such a sluggard, he said, as we walked quickly along the street, but yesterday evening I got a novel. I ought not to read novels. When I do, I am apt to make a single mouthful of it; and that is what I did last night. I started the book at nine and finished it at two this morning; and the result is that I am as sleepy as an owl even now.

We met in the park to wrest the afternoon into the shape of a stroll.

Here was leisure measured in days, in weeks; here, in these expensive and lovingly crafted boats, was leisure measured in month-long sailing excursions up and down the coast, so much leisure that it made Lem break into a sweat, made him want to scream.

too much leisure was a dangerous distraction from the cold, hard realities of life

There's more to life than work and more work.

The only thing that equals my joy in knitting is the pleasure of reading!

He settled in his beautiful Georgian house in Lymington surrounded by beautiful things. He knew how to live well, perhaps without regard for his health. He hated exercise, smoked, drank and wrote. Today he would have been bullied by wife and children and friends into giving up these habits and changing his lifestyle, but I'm not sure he would have given in. Maybe like me, he would simply find a quiet place. Dominic Wheatley, 2013

For in one stroke, I am become a gentleman of leisure, non?

And it was a fine day, one fit for birdsong, rambling the woods, and maybe fishing a bit near sunset.

I easily fall asleep during a movie.

I am an avid television watcher.

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.