Quotes about Leisure
Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He
— Cormac McCarthy
I'd rather be at Wragby, where I can go about and be still, and not stare at anything or do any performing of any sort. This tourist performance of enjoying oneself is too hopelessly humiliating: it's such a failure.
— DH Lawrence
I believe I see what the week is for: it is to give time to rest up from the weariness of Sunday.
— Mark Twain
As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
— Elbert Hubbard
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as time to a man in a summer vacation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.
— John Ortberg
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
— Alice Walker
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer
— Thomas Merton
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
— Mark Twain
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
— Henry David Thoreau
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
— Samuel Johnson