Quotes about Leisure

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

The hill is like an old woman, all her human obligations met, who sits at work day after day, in a kind of rapt leisure, at an intricate embroidery. She has time for all things. Because she does not expect ever to be finished, she is endlessly patient with details. She perfects flower and leaf, feather and song, adorning the briefest life in great beauty as though it were meant to last forever.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.

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

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.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.