Leisure

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

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

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness

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

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

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

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

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

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work

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

The day is done, and the darkness, falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward, from an eagle in his flight