leisure quotes

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

I like to take it easy.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

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

I don’t race cars.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I don’t get bored.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

I like my fair share of board games.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I got my buzz from playing.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.