Quotes About Leisure

I never thought I should like to wash dishes, but I do, said Rose, as she sat in a boat after supper lazily rinsing plates in the sea, and rocking luxuriously as she wiped them.

The first of June! The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and I'm free. Three months' vacation—how I shall enjoy it! exclaimed Meg, coming home one warm day to find Jo laid upon the sofa in an unusual state of exhaustion, while Beth took off her dusty boots, and Amy made lemonade for the refreshment of the whole party.

Don't you feel that it is pleasanter to help one another, to have daily duties which make leisure sweet when it comes

Went to Wiesbaden first, a pleasant, gay place, full of people.

all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play.

He spent winters at the Villa Henriette in Monte Carlo, which had a beautiful view of the Mediterranean.

Though he considered establishing a weekend house or summer hideaway, he had no exact plan.

I think it would do you good to get away from the office and get your mind off business for a while.

take off as much time as you like.

Golf was his greatest indulgence.

Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.

The camel's hump is an ugly lump, Which well you might see at the zoo. But uglier yet is the hump we get, For having to little to do.

Cleaning bored her. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

Work hard, make money, have fun.

The leisure class, a.k.a. the landed gentry, on whom my business depends," he told Geronimo Manezes, "are the hunters, not the gatherers; they make their way by the immoral road of exploitation, not the virtuous path of industry. But I, to make my way, have to treat the rich as the good guys, the lions, the creators of wealth and guardians of freedom, which naturally I don't mind doing because I'm an exploiter too and I also want to think of myself as virtuous.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

"You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress."

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

I recommend sports, I don't recommend gambling.

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

Cricket is baseball on Valium.