Quotes About Leisure

107] Comme on dirait un gobe-mouche, un désœuvré, un oisif, qui bat l'eau pour faire des ronds, qui fume pour faire quelque chose et ne fait autre emploi de ses dix doigts que de soutenir le tuyau de sa pipe de l'air du monde le plus préoccupé.

With our busy lives, for most of us, relaxation is not a priority. When to do nothing." I ask people in yoga classes what they do to relax, a common answer is our —J. B. Priestley contemporary types of "relaxation"—watching TV, competitive and spectator sports events, walking, reading, and so on.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

He would say only slightly facetiously that the main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

She had such a deep tan that she looked as if she'd just been removed from the barbecue.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Skipping gives the adult a well-deserved break and lets the inner child be in charge for a while.

Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars' worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

God made ice for hockey and scotch, and that's about it.

Never mind having an existential crisis; it's been years since we've even been to the movies.

The two worst things ever invented was air-conditioning and television. First, the air-conditioning made it so folks didn't want to go out of doors no more. And since they was all cooped up inside their cold houses, they needed something to do, so some other feller invented television. Now, you tell me one good thing ever come from them two contraptions." He paused. "You can't, can you?

All of these video games are rotting my brain. I'm gonna go watch T.V. instead

Our species is obsessed with play: we are either participating ourselves or watching others play for us.

You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

I waste my life. I want to. It's the thing to do with a life. We were wrong about work--it isn't the best thing, no matter how much you love it. Wasting time is better.

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.