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Quotes About Leisure

What do gardeners do when they retire?
~ Bob Monkhouse
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
~ Lena Dunham
I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.
~ Mitch Hedberg
But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.
~ Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
I thought "RV" stood for "Recreational Vehicle." No! It stands for "Ruins Vacations."
~ Bill Engvall
Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.
~ George Mikes
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
~ Samuel Johnson
If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I have a computer, a vibrator, and pizza delivery. Why should I leave the house? " - Tabitha
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why would you go out and not drink? Just stay home and sit there.
~ Chelsea Handler
If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.
~ David Cross
Thus, hanging around in our towels (and those weird disposable underpants) was no big deal.
~ Ann Benjamin, Life After Joe
Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts
~ P.G. Wodehouse
An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
~ Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.
~ Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine
It's adult swim time and I'm diving in here at the shallow end.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
~ Ric Keller
I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.
~ Larry the Cable Guy
America is the only place where people go hunting on a full stomach.
~ Chris Rock
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
~ Samuel Johnson
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
~ Brenda Ueland
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
~ Dallas Willard
Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.
~ Victoria Wood