Quotes About Leisure

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

To sit in this awful mess and maybe smoke some dope and watch some innocuous shit on a dumb glass tube and feel fine about it and know there's really nothing you have to do, ever, but feel your warm friend's silent content. You don't feel guilty about not fighting a war or carrying signs to protest it either. We've just mastered the life of doing nothing, which when you think about it, may be the hardest thing of all to do.

This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, "Honey, do this," and "Honey, do that" around the house.

We have time, there's no big rush.

Fun is about as good a habit as there is.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.

I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I'm doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

La-di-dah, just out for a little spin, don't mind me.

The stalking, predatory animal cuts the weakest from the pack, and then kills at his leisure.

Now, Halford, I bid you adieu for the present. This is the first instalment of my debt. If the coin suits you, tell me so, and I'll send you the rest of my leisure: if you would rather remain my creditor than stuff your purse with such ungainly heavy pieces tell me still, and I'll pardon your bad taste, and willingly keep the treasure to myself.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.