Quotes About Leisure

My mother said, neutrally, that other children in the neighborhood were able to amuse themselves; they didn't seem to need adults to be involved with their pastimes. With a disinclined air, she taught me how to play solitaire.

How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.

We slept as much as we wanted, made love twice a day, read and wrote letters and played cards.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

I enjoy very little leisure in the evenings. But don't misunderstand me, I find a good book at my bedside of incalculable value. When I eventually retire I've no sooner read a few pages than I'm overwhelmed with sleep.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

Inner peace enhances our ability to enjoy solitude, leisure, and the company of others. Our sleeping improves and dreaming becomes a time of fun and enrichment, rather than a restless and disturbed thrashing-about in symbolic reenactments of childhood trauma.

There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

Carys accepted a glass of white wine from the maidbot

Deras kärlek var som lek, utan brådska, utan desperation och i stort sett utan riktning. Vad de försökte var att surfa så länge som möjligt på den heta yta de hade under sig.

Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.