Quotes About Leisure

The biggest misconception is that swimming is something you do on holiday, in the pool or in the ocean.

I usually go to the swimming pool if I want to swim.

I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.

It's quite nice to switch off and not see anything to do with cricket.

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.

I'm a big gamer, so I love my PlayStation to switch off from triathlon.

I can never fully switch off given my work, but laying on the beach replying to a few emails on my mobile is much better than being stuck in the office.

I would love to do skiing and go with my mates and have a chalet, have a drink, have a good time, and just switch off. Or maybe a marathon or something crazy like that.

Off the pitch I've always believed it is healthy to switch off from football and have completely different interests too.

On a Friday night, I switch on my log burner, stick on 'Gardeners' World' and I am so happy.

At home I have a mixing desk that I like playing around on. It's great fun making music myself. And music has always been a very good counterbalance to football for me. It allows me to switch off and relax.

I just love switching stuff off and going for a run, or sitting down and eating cake.

I would describe my relationship with my couch as symbiotic - others would describe it as dangerous.

Als suffen werk is, dan ben ik geen harde werker. Als daarentegen slapen werk is, maak ik overuren.

Few of us have enough wisdom for justice, or enough leisure for humanity.

I dropped the book on the table, stretched for a good yawn, went and opened the window and stood there looking down on the street long enough to let the sharp cold air make me feel like blankets and hopped for the hay.

Desde luego, los domingos son idiotas.

Mrs. Popper sighed. "I sometimes wish you had the kind of work that lasted all year, instead of just from spring until fall," she said. "It will be very nice to have you at home for a vacation, of course, but it is a little hard to sweep with a man sitting around reading all day.

As it fell upon a dayIn the merry month of May,Sitting in a pleasant shadeWhich a grove of myrtles made.

The British custom of taking tea as an afternoon break has more to do with sugar than with tea. During the nineteenth century, when the custom arose, it was something like the coffee break in modern workplaces, but not so leisurely: a chance to gulp a quick cup of tea, which was invariably laced with sugar. In this way were the human machines of the factory "nourished"—fueled—without even needing to leave their machines.

It was not so much the [lack of] leisure, but also the nervous tension. One comes back to one's native land and sees that one has been abandoned. - Antheil

People for whom summer wasn't a verb.

Golf was not a game he'd ever particularly wanted to take up. Nobody he liked had ever played golf, and a lot of the people he disliked intensely played all the time.

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn't know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day.