Quotes About Leisure

a dozen...chocolate chip cookies...a pot of coffee, and a good book are all I will need for the rainy weekend rolling in.

I stay on terra firma under an umbrella with a good book. That's my idea of the shore.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.

Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

Over the past hundred and fifty years , it has become increasingly difficult to extricate reading from academic expectations; but I believe such extrication is necessary. Education is and should be primarily about intellectual navigation, about --I scruple not to say it -- skimming well, and reading carefully for information in order to upload content. Slow and patient reading, by contrast, properly belongs to our leisure hours.

Yes, I know that the word "school" derives from scholia, meaning leisure.

A small number of residents in each city have stopped caring whether they age a few seconds faster than their neighbors. These adventuresome souls come down to the lower world for days at a time, lounge under the trees that grow in the valleys, swim leisurely in the lakes that lie at warmer altitudes, roll on level ground. They hardly look at their watches and cannot tell you if it is Monday or Thursday. When the others rush by them and scoff, they just smile.

Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory.

Culturally it means a return from the newspaper and the radio to the book, from feverish activity to unhurried leisure, from dispersion to concentration, from sensationalism to reflection, from virtuosity to art, from snobbery to modesty, from extravagance to moderation.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

number later put it, 'quids in'. 'I was getting taxis about,' he recalled. 'I mean, a pound would buy you a bloody good night out. You could probably have eight or nine pints of beer and twenty fags and a couple of tanners for the juke box.

Una tarde de domingo es inconfundible.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

Life is a beach, and these hoes try'na lay out

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.