Quotes About Leisure

My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.

...but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn't come with complications.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Sports are what we watch when we just can't look at another spreadsheet. They're what we use when we need to get away from our lives for a little bit. Every human needs the escape, and sports provides this splendidly.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together.

The greatest thing about a nap is that it gives you two days for the price of one. You have the whole day before the nap, and when you wake up you have a whole day ahead of you.

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

Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Ye who, borne about in chariots and sedans know no fatigue but that of idleness.

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.

in Altruria every one works with his hands, so that the hard work shall not all fall to any one class; and this manual labor of each is sufficient to keep the body in health, as well as to earn a living. After the three, hours' work, which constitutes a day's work with us, is done, the young people have all sorts of games and sports, and they carry them as late into life as the temperament of each demands.

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.