Quotes About Leisure

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

Being pampered is great, but sometimes I like to do those things myself because it's a little therapeutic and gives me some downtime for myself - and I need that.

Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.

Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.

I think holidays come in all sizes - sometimes you just need to relax.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

I don't say no to dance shows on TV channels as they have always served as stress busters. I thoroughly enjoy dancing.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

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When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. Put The Idiot in your lap or over your face, and you know where you are going to be for the afternoon.

a vida é brinquedo que para nada serve, a não ser para a alegria! Entregue-se, sem vergonha e sem sentimentos de culpa, às delícias do ócio. Aprenda a andar sem ter de chegar a lugar algum, simplesmente gozando o mundo que nos cerca! Faça o fantástico turismo gratuito dos livros.

How sweet it is to do nothing, and afterwards to rest!

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

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.

Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football.

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.