Quotes About Leisure

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

I like any European city where you can sit outside, have a beer and watch the world go by.

There was a picture of Votto standing by his pool, smiling, the sun in his eyes—Life is beautiful. Joe looked at the picture. Then he went out to a hardware store and picked up a new hammer.

I sat in airport hell wondering once again why there is nothing to do in airports. Why hasn't some enterprising genius yet realized all us bored ticket holders would adore, flock to, pay hard cash for any diversions that lasted longer than a cruise through the magazine racks or dull necktie store?

My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.

The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn't do today really could be put off until tomorrow.

My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.

My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory. The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate

My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern

Separated from the sphere of divine worship, of the cult of the divine, and from the power it radiates, leisure is as impossible as the celebration of a feast. Cut off from the worship of the divine, leisure becomes laziness and work inhuman.

The soul of leisure, it can be said, lies in "celebration". Celebration is the point at which the three elements of leisure come to a focus: relaxation, effortlessness, and superiority of "active leisure" to all functions.

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost.

Leisure draws its vitality from affirmation. It is not the same as non-activity, nor is it identical with tranquility; it is not even the same as inward tranquility. Rather, it is like the tranquil silence of lovers, which draws its strength from concord.

Our effort has been to regain some space for true leisure, to bring back a fundamentally right possession of leisure, "active leisure".

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

what I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, What are you going to do, Christopher Robin, and you say, Oh, nothing, and then you go and do it.

The sound of the surf came through the wide window and John finished his drink, dropped his cigarette butt in the glass, and said to her, "We've had dinner, we made love, we had a drink. What do we do now?

my afternoons are the least intellectual part of my life

Il lavoro è pesante, ma stare lì a far niente guardando qualcuno che lavora è ancora più pesante, soprattutto se è vecchio

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.