161 Quotes About Leisure

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

If you are losing your leisure, look out! -- It may be you are losing your soul.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

[Gemütlichkeit] verspottet euren gesunden Verstand.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.