Quotes About Leisure

Life begins at retirement.

You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps.

Oh ladybug, I wish you joy As you complete your garden chores. I'd like to put aside my work And join you in the out-of-doors!

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy,I don't mind, I think they're crazyRunning everywhere at such a speedTill they find there's no need.Please don't spoil my day, I'm miles awayAnd after all I'm only sleeping.

I've spent most of my life golfing — the rest I've just wasted.

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.

An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.

There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation. It's called your checkbook.

I'm retired — goodbye tension, hello pension!

You know you're a skydiver when you'll wake up at 6:30 am on the weekends to get to the drop zone, but you can't seem to get up by 7:30 on the weekdays to be at work by 8:00.

Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty!

There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.

water skiing is a way of life

The great gift of the southern lands to our civilisation is the simple right to sit at an outside cafe table and look at things.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

You know the trouble with this part of the world? It's full of retired bankers and lawyers with too much time on their hands.

Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.

You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.

Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym.

Then started playing men's cricket when I was 15. That's when I stopped enjoying it. It was long days, 50-over games with men 15 years older who you don't really have anything in common with, all talking about going to the pub.

It is very boring and lonely in Shirebrook. You know what we do after work? We go to the pub after work.

I didnt even own my own set of darts until 2012 when my mate started a team in the pub and wed just play on a Friday night.

It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.