Quotes about Leisure
The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust.
- Charles Dickens
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
- Oscar Wilde
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