Quotes About Leisure

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

The leisure class has been replaced by another and much larger class to which work has none of the older connotation of pain, fatigue, or other mental or physical discomfort. We have failed to observe the emergence of this New Class, as it may be simply called.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

He doesn't care if my trainers get wet because we're at the seaside and it doesn't matter at the seaside, nothing matters at the seaside.

It's one o'clock and we're having a pre-match pint. It's been a hard week at the warehouse and the lager gives me a kick-start.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for twenty hours a day. But I envied them too. It was the kind of lifestyle I could relate to. We didn't sleep for twenty hours, but we gave it our best shot.

While Mallory fixes the appetizers, Jake goes for a swim

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

They were accustomed to think of the Abbé as one of those men who pass rapidly from point to point, from task to task, so intent on redeeming the time because the days are evil that they have no leisure to pause and enquire if perhaps the bad days have a few good points about them after all.

Gregory Pluckrose is a man who enjoys sitting and reclining; if there has to be any movement, it is toward kitchen or buffet table, plate in hand.

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

Then he noticed a little row-boat at about two hundred yards from the shore. There were two or three people aboard, he could not quite make out how many, and they were no doubt fishing, and Merritt (who disliked fish) wondered how people could spoil such an afternoon, such a sea, such pellucid and radiant air by trying to catch white, flabby, offensive, evil-smelling creatures that would be excessively nasty when cooked.

Golf is hockey at the halt.

doce horas en la cama, cuatro en el tocador, cinco en visitas y tres de paseo, o en el teatro.

algunos preferimos, supongo, los vicios que nos divierten a las virtudes que nos aburren.

[T]o play golf is to spoil an otherwise enjoyable walk.