Traveling and Leisure Quotes

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up

When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work