Quotes about Leisure

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.

I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

The trouble with life in America today is not that we work too much but that our free time is too much engaged in play and amusement so that too little of it is left for the kind of leisure activities that really are the most profitable part of human life.

A holiday would be a poor thing indeed without a great deal of game playing!

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy