Quotes About Leisure

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

Leisure time Children in Italy enjoy similar pastimes to young people from elsewhere in Europe. There are many television channels to watch, and pop music and comic strips also are popular. Watching soccer is a national passion, for both men and women. Young boys, such as these from Turin, are often seen in the parks and alleys, practicing their skills.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

Comprendo que para algunos el ocio puede ser fatal; sé de varios jubilados que no fueron capaces de sobrevivir a esa interrupción de la rutina. Pero ésa es gente que se ha ido endureciendo, anquilosando, que virtualmente ha ido dejando de pensar por su cuenta. No creo que éste fuera mi caso. Yo pienso por mi cuenta. Pero aun pensando por mi cuenta, podría desconfiar del ocio, siempre que el ocio fuera una simple variante de la soledad;

Cuando me jubile, tal vez lo mejor sea abandonarme al ocio, a una especie de modorra compensatoria, a fin de que los nervios, los músculos, la energía se relajen de a poco y se acostumbren bien a morir.

His day-to-day life was fairly frivolous and lazy and laid-back. It was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a bunch of cats hanging on his shoulders and maybe reading a book at the same time or doing a crossword puzzle." - Ken Morton, Edward Gorey's first cousin once removed, on Gorey's daily routines.

Remember the motto: 'Work hard, play hard.' Regard your personal time as just as important as your work time and give as much attention to planning it as you do to planning your work. What are you working for if you don't have a personal life?

Ah, Colorado: the one place in America where people wake up earlier on weekends than workdays.

The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the state to make all the choices in respect of their health care. It's a curious inversion of citizenship to demand control over peripheral leisure activities but to contract out the big life-changing stuff to the government.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.

Golf is good walk spoiled

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

G'bye, I'm going out to play!

Do you ever take a holiday? Like, do any of you just wake up and think 'Today feels like a pyjama day.'? or is it always, 'Today is a good day for murdering and stalking.'?

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.

My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.

The main thing right now is just going out and having fun. I know what I want to do. If I go out and have fun and relax, then all my goals should come true.

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.

Laughter is an instant vacation.