Leisure Quotes

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”

“All I wanna do is have some fun.”

“In the cool, cool, cool of the evening, tell 'em I'll be there.”

“In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.”

“Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.”

“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.”

“The first purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.”

“My favourite amusement has been to fish in streams, and to clamber over rocks and mountains.”

“There is no fun in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.”

“The best way to fill time is to waste it.”

“The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”

“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”

“Let the world go by, there's always time for a yarn and a pint of beer.”

“I spend a lot of time doing nothing.”

“What a day for a daydream.”

“I like to go to places where you can literally lie on a beach and read a book and do nothing.”

“I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.”

“It's a nuisance that we have to work. All the fun things in life are things you don't have to work at.”

“The alternative to work isn't just idleness. To be ludic is not to be quaaludic.”