Quotes About Leisure

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.

What's the most popular pastime in America? Autoeroticism, hands down.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

Don't stand when you can sit; don't sit when you can lie down.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Când plou?, oamenii citesc, merg la cinema È™i se îndr?gostesc, artiÈ™tii lucreaz?, soldaÈ›ii ramân în corturi. Dar ce fac b?rbaÈ›ii si femeile când nu plou?? Fac plaj?, pierd vremea în faÈ›a vitrinelor magazinelor de îmbr?c?minte, organizeaz? garden parties È™i masacre. Au loc mai multe r?zboaie în ??rile s?race în precipitaÈ›ii.

Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).

When playing either quarter pitch or spinners, you can go through a case of beer in twenty minutes. It's fun and it's deadly.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.