Quotes about Leisure
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.
— Dorothy Sayers
Damn it, said Wimsey, savagely, I always did hate watering-places!
— Dorothy Sayers
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
— Joseph Addison
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
— Zig Ziglar
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
— Dan Quayle
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
— William Hazlitt