Quotes about Leisure
People come and go, and even the closest members of the family eventually disperse. It's useless to cling to anybody or anything because everything in the universe tends toward separation, chaos, and entropy, not cohesion. I have chosen a simpler life, with fewer material things and more leisure, fewer worries and more fun, fewer social commitments and more true friendship, less fuss and more silence.
- Isabel Allende
The true object of human life is play.
- GK Chesterton
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
- George Bernard Shaw
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
- Jack Kerouac
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space with the sky its ceiling room enough for the worship of God in the most delicate of his works and in the most sublime? A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in -what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
- Victor Hugo
Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor helmets.
- Milan Kundera
For time spurred on by jealousy passes with amazing speed. Jealousy occupies the mind more completely than passionate intellectual work. The mind has not a moment of leisure. A victim of jealousy never knows boredom
- Milan Kundera
Outside of football and training, I am somewhat of a homebody. Love hangin' out with my siblings and close friends.
- Tim Tebow
Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.
- Herman Melville
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.
- Maya Angelou
I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
- John Malkovich