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Leisure Quotes

"Either give me more wine or leave me alone."
Rumi
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."
Jeff Bezos
"I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo."
Nicole Kidman
"I'm gonna soak up the sun"
Pink
"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment"
Jane Austen
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain
"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read"
Anne Bronte
"Leisure is the mother of philosophy"
Thomas Hobbes
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"
John Lubbock
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Bertrand Russell
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable"
Anton Chekhov
"We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary."
Agatha Christie
"Life is more fun if you play games"
Roald Dahl
"Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing which I call thinking is my supreme Happiness"
David Hume
"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless"
Bill Watterson
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Bill Watterson
"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."
Alice Walker
"Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading."
Lena Dunham
"Work doesn't work without play"
Shonda Rhimes
"Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages"
James Madison
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