Quotes About Leisure

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

A group's preference for specific activities is one important way values emerge in a culture. The leisure habits of the rich are framed as activities to see and to be seen at. They prove exercise, but no exertion; they are a courtly site of sociality and pleasure.

A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth. Lucien Fairchild

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

Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with a growth rate of 0%? Isn't this a rather stable kind of economics? Could there be anything better than living simply and taking it easy?

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

All play and no work make Jack a poor boy.

All play and no work makes Jack a poor boy.

Stop thinking about fun and have it" Homer Simpson

Don't feel guilty about being idle. More harm is probably done to the world through work than idleness. But perfect your idleness. Make it mindful.

One initial proposal I wanted to put to them was to swap things over. For instance, have five fun days and two not-fun days. That way – call me a mathematical genius – they would have more fun.

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

The middle class tend to be interested in spending money on leisure and entertainment. They leave behind much bigger carbon and digital footprints

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

Impulsive enjoyment of life, which leads away both from work in a calling and from religion, was as such the enemy of rational asceticism, whether in the form of seigneurial sports, or the enjoyment of the dance-hall or the public—house of the common man. 

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

I spent some of my endless hours of leisure learning how to shoot a gun, which I thought might come in handy someday, if not in the war then back on the streets of New York.

Summer was for pleasure and boredom, not chaos and doubt.

How little they thought about anything but their own amusement. Their lives were so easy, so full of beauty and money. How much they could do with it, and how disappointing to find them so vacant.

A nagging thought: What did I have to show for all that free time the mothers didn't have?

On the list of european royalty's leisure activities, "overrunning Poland" has historically been a close second to "sex".