Quotes About Leisure

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is what they do in their spare time . . . When at work, work hard, but remember that what you do after work with your pay cheque and your spare time will determine your future.

the only difference between a rich person and a poor person is what they do in their spare time.

Only difference between rich people and poor people is what they do in their spare time.

Then the tree provides shade for your enjoyment.

How much time off will I have each day?

My rich dad used to say to his son and me that the only difference between a rich person and a poor person is what they do in their spare time.

What would my life be like if I never had to work again?" "What would I do if I had all the money I needed?

She has no serious ideals at all-her sole aspiration seems to be to have a good time.

Well, I am going to leave the war to Haig for the rest of the day and make a frosting for my chocolate cake.

Then why don't you marry him? Sally laughed. I don't want to jump into anything. 'Marry in haste, repent at leisure.' I can get married any time. Her trained objectivity made her add, Well, any time within the next five years. I'll be something of a spinster if I'm not married by then.

Father always maintained that a man would do more work in twelve hours, if he had a rest and all the egg-nog he could drink, morning and afternoon.

go back through your "List of 100 Dreams" and choose elements of a few to incorporate into your days. Make two lists: one of activities that take half an hour or less, and another of activities that take less than 10 minutes. Then, figure out ways you can make these two sets of activities as easy as lighting up a cigarette or turning on the TV any time a bit of leisure shows up on your schedule.

Luca never stands when he can lean.

If the US Open was a two-week trip to Ibiza, Wimbledon was a meditative hike through a scenic national park.

There are towns, you know, for making money. Towns to start a career. Towns to go to college. Towns to raise a family. Key West is no damn good for any of that. Key West is to feel good and be happy. That's all.

I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read. Heaven .

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

A chair that reclines is mighty fine.

As if on cue, in 1608, golf was introduced from Scotland for the first time, played around a 5-hole course on Blackheath, south of London. The leather balls, stuffed with feathers, lasted no more than one game each, particularly if it rained. At 5 shillings a time, it was a ruinously expensive but a strangely consoling pursuit, fitted to a country replete with contentment.