Quotes about Leisure

As long as I am playing and enjoying playing, then that is all that matters.

Play and Recreation The key here is to engage in activities that are pure and healthy and that breathe life into you.

I purposely engage in ideas and people that get my mind off even the thought of work! That includes napping, working out, going for long walks, reading a novel, watching a good movie, going out for dinner. I avoid the computer and cell phone.

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.

Not on the wealthy, who buy only what they want when they want it, was the vast superstructure of industry founded and built up, but on those who, aching for a luxury beyond their reach and for a leisure for ever denied them, could be bullied or wheedled into spending their few hardly won shillings on whatever might give them, if only for a moment, a leisured and luxurious illusion.

Damn it, said Wimsey, savagely, I always did hate watering-places!

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.