Leisure Quotes
A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows...
Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest!
To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.
Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done.
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
Any idea that takes away sweet sleeps from you will eventually bring to you sweet life. Be diligent and willing to stay awake until your good is better and your better becomes excellent!
Stress is equivalent to weapons of mass destruction armed for wrong reasons. The difference is that, it is less costly as compared to the atomic bombs! However, it destroys faster!
Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can’t think better and plan better when you are under stress!
A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind.
Even their downtime was epic.
Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.
I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.
Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.
Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.
Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.
My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.
My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.
Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.
The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.
Even when he played, he made a business of it.
I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants.
Since our boss will be retiring soon it's been suggested that we give him a little momentum.
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.
I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.