“Snug as a bug in a rug”
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“Snug as a bug in a rug”
“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”