Quotes About Leisure

I don't let birdies and pars get in the way of having a good time

You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.

Golf is not a matter of life or death. It is much more important than that.

Golf is a good preoccupation but as the meaning of life ... it lacks a few things.

If people focused on life's really important matters there'd be a shortage of golf clubs.

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your 'free' time.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

There fermented in that sublimated brain plans so vast, projects so tumultuous, that there remained no room for any capricious or material love—that sentiment which is fed by leisure and grows with corruption.

There is a sort of American who, instead of going to dance joyously in the public square in his leisure moments, as people of his profession continue to do in a great part of Europe, goes off alone to the depth of his home to drink. This man enjoys two pleasures at once: he dreams of his trade and gets drunk decently within the family home.

Irlma doesn't care for the sight of people reading because it is not sociable and at the end of it all what has been accomplished? She thinks people are better off playing cards, or making things.

So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going to find this very healthy and clear, but I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends.

We are here for our amusement.

a place to throw down a blanket and read a book.

Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning children.

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.

I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?

The word "school" has a curious history behind it. Meaning originally "leisure" it has now acquired precisely the opposite sense of systematic work and training, as civilization restricted the free disposal of the young man's time more and more and herded larger and larger classes of the young to a daily life of severe application from childhood onwards.

Now that they are effectively under house arrest, what are kids doing with the time they used to spend playing? One study of this found that this time is now overwhelmingly spent on homework (which exploded by 145 percent between 1981 and 1997), screens, and shopping with their parents. A 2004 study found that U.S. kids spent 7.5 hours more each week on academics than they had twenty years before.

Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy, He soon grows fond of unconditioned rest;

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.