Quotes about Leisure

Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be fed tomato sandwiches and lemonades by some angelic servant still in a shadowy hinterland. Between paragraphs Anthony would come and kiss her as she lay indolently in the hammock….

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

It's Miller time.

Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money.

May thy ball lie in green pastures... and not in still waters.

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler

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

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

Some days are simply meant for playing.