Quotes About Leisure

slapping a bright yellow ball around a silver pole.

as if it was perfectly reasonable to havea small bowling alley in one's house.

The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time.

The thing about sleeping is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. Complete waste of time

Ryan circled the pool, around the diving board, and moved down to the shallow end. That was enough bug-catching for one day.

Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it.

His creation was a sort of new religion; the churches, gradually deserted by a wavering faith, were replaced by this bazaar, in the minds of the idle women of Paris. Women now came and spent their leisure time in his establishment, the shivering and anxious hours they formerly passed in churches: a necessary consumption of nervous passion, a growing struggle of the god of dress against the husband, the incessantly renewed religion of the body with the divine future of beauty.

All his [Laurent's] great powerful body wanted was to do nothing, to wallow in never-ending idleness and self-indulgence. He would have liked to eat well, sleep well, satisfy his passions liberally, without stirring from one spot or risking the misfortune of a bit of fatigue.

se reposant de tout un après-midi de flânerie.

The old man sawed as if aeons of time were before him, and as if all the years behind him had been leisurely and all the years in front of him would be equally so. Life had sweetened the old man. He was luscious with time like the end berries of the strawberry season.

Like the perfect beach vacation, where the routine is so blissfully uneventful that when you return home and friends ask how your trip was, you can't really recall what exactly you did to fill up so many hours. That's what being with Dex is like.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes to do only when he is not at work.

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work.

Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.

Wives of the middle and upper classes increasingly became idle drones. They turned household management over to stewards, reduced their reproductive responsibilities by contraceptive measures, and passed their time in such occupations as novel reading, theatre going, card playing and formal visits … The custom of turning wives into ladies 'languishing in listlessness' as ornamental status objects spread downwards through the social scale. 4

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything.

In our busy, busy culture in which even teens have incredibly complicated schedules, "wasting" time seems to mean, "having a block of time that's not booked." That's not it at all, because, believe it or not, busy, busy time can be wasted time, too. And, to make it even more complicated, an hour spent sitting outside doing "nothing" can actually be the opposite of wasted time. That hour just might be the best and most moral use of time you've had today.

Saturday is a day for the spa. RELAX, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

You know, I ask myself what wealthy people do all day. What do you do when you aren't forced to work but still need the feeling that life must have some kind of meaning?