Quotes About Leisure

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished for come.

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure,Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.

Some come to take their easeAnd sleep an act or two.

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

The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.

Abel also kept busy taking it easy. Only when taking it easy, he'd learned, could one properly do one's wondering.

Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed, more poignant parts of life—the inescapable sorrows, the speechless longings, the disappointments, the regrets, the cold miseries. It also allowed one the leisure to ponder questions unasked in the bustle of brighter days; and if one were snug under a sound roof, as Abel was, one felt somehow mothered, though mothers were nowhere around, and absolved of responsibilities.

Resigned to vacant musing, Unreproved neglect of all things And deliberate holiday.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Set your pace to a stroll. Stop whenever you want. Interrupt, jump back and forth, I won't mind. This book should be as easy as laughter. It is stuffed with small things to take away. Please help yourself.

Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is "to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.

What a splendid piece of furniture an armchair is, of utmost importance and usefulness to a contemplative man. During those long winter evenings, it is often sweet and always advisable to stretch out luxuriously in one, far from the din of crowds. A good fire, a few books, some quills - what excellent antidotes to boredom!

It appears to me that not only what is done by honourable and virtuous men in the serious transactions of life is worthy of record, but also what they do in their hours of amusement.

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

No, Arabs are not lazy, but we take the time to live life to the full; it is something Europeans don't understand. To them, time is money. To us, time has no price.

Our life as a human being with some leisure and good fortune is not to be squandered. It's an opportunity that's rare and priceless. When we truly know this, we are profoundly grateful for the potential that each day brings.

We can just hang out and walk and read and talk and stuff.

What I liked was that the game was not always on the goal line out there. It wasn't always life and death. There were time-out signs. It was a nicer game.

An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.

You must engage in horizontal refreshment. It isn't healthy to congest oneself like that.