Quotes About Leisure

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler

As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.

Gavin was lying on his bed watching ESPN. He should have something more constructive to do than watch a replay of a soccer game between two European teams. Why wasn't he up and dressed, doing something rather than lazing in bed

Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.

Should I pack a bathing suit?

Anna liked magazines. They were glossy machines. The only technology that she could fold. She read them on a regular basis because they were absorbing. Each one came out on a specific day of the week and was good for an hour of absorption.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

But the blind did not go around very much. They sat, and didn't seem to have any conversation, and soon you were aware of leisure gone bad. I had learned something of this during Einhorn's days of dirty mental weather. Or of the soul, not the mind, the sick evil of not even knowing why anything should ail you since you're resigned to accept all conditions.

Never has any country given its people so many toys to play with or sent such highly gifted individuals to the remotest corners of idleness, as close as possible to the frontiers of pain.

The directional nature of happiness is one reason it's a good idea to have a sport or hobby that leaves you plenty of room to improve every year. Tennis

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, "I drank too much last night.

One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Sports is the toy department of life.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!