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Quotes About Leisure

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.
~ Walter Rauschenbusch
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain
Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
~ Usain Bolt
My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
~ Stanley Kubrick
I only make movies to finance my fishing.
~ Lee Marvin
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
~ Francois Truffaut
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.
~ Alexander Borodin
Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.
~ Graham Coxon
I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
~ Tom Petty
I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!
~ Martina McBride
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
~ Marlon Wayans
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
~ Caroline Wozniacki
If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.
~ Charles Frazier
When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.
~ Charles A. Murray
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
~ Antoine Rivarol
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
~ Livy
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
~ Nacho Figueras
The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.
~ Wes Fesler
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
~ Aristotle
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
~ Anthony Burgess
I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.
~ Margaret Mitchell