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Quotes About Leisure

Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.
~ Peter Cook
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
~ David Hume
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.
~ David Hume
Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.
~ Johnny Carson
Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
~ Alexander Pope
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
~ George Zimmerman
Happiness is the art of relaxation.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
~ John Ralston Saul
Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.
~ Winston Churchill
Some days are simply meant for playing.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Coffee and books are a simple recipe for happiness.
~ Nourhan Mamdouh
As far as I'm concerned, eighteen holes of golf is the only happiness that money can buy. - Momofuku Ando
~ Andy Raskin
My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes
~ Lewis Black
My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
~ Phyllis Diller
We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.
~ Prince Philip
And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.
~ Dr. Seuss
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.
~ Rosamond Lehmann
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.
~ Marston Bates
I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
~ Uwe Boll
I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
~ Martin Freeman
I'm boring. I stay home, watch TV, and eat a lot of fast food. That's really exciting, isn't it?
~ Robert Pattinson