Quotes About Leisure

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

Laziness can be virtuous in the right setting, I guess.

The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm had made this point more than fifty years earlier: "Modern man thinks he loses something — time — when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm had made this point more than fifty years earlier: "Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right; people didn't use extra time earned to relax or connect with friends or family. Instead, they tried to cram more in.

"What shall you do all your vacation?" asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing," replied Meg.

Spare time, as I used to understand it, was the time left over from doing the necessary, unpleasant things, like correcting Sophomore English themes or washing out silk stockings in the bathroom. It was the time i frittered away on useless, entertaining pursuits, like the movies or contract bridge. Now almost everything I do - except cooking- is fun, and it is also useful. There is no line of demarcation between work and play. It makes it hard to explain what I do with my spare time.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.

My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

It is true that under the wages system the individual is not free to choose permanent unemployment. But no other imaginable social system could grant him a right to unlimited leisure. That man cannot avoid submitting to the disutility of labor is not an outgrowth of any social institution. It is an inescapable natural condition of human life and conduct.

People sometimes complain that Berliners just sit around all day in cafes, smoking and talking about art. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

So what do you do when you're not working?' 'I read books, a lot of books. I have a cottage in Twickenham, right by the river. It's a small cottage, and the books take up a greater part of it. My wife and I are great readers.

many adults see play as idleness, and idleness as the proverbial "devil's workshop.

Our problems are no longer problems when we seek learning instead of leisure.

I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improvement of my mind but I find that much of it has been spent extremely foolish and that walking in the pasture at dusk with virtuous, amiable and genteel young ladies I experience none but swineish passions. I commenced to read Russell's Modern Europe sometime last summer.

Most adults, by contrast, find it hard to be playful Ã¢â'¬â€ no doubt because they have to take care of all the responsibilities that come with an adult's life. Creative adults, however, have not forgotten how to play.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Dear summer, slow the fu.. down!

Life is better in the summer....

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.