Bored Quote by Gene Perret Download Open image “Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.” — Gene Perret ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bored Fancy Leisure People Want
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company,… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into enjoyment. Compared… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I am busy all day long. Never bored - I don't know what the word means. — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind.… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf… — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
Someone else who liked what I did might turn around and say, "She's reworking and rethinking everything. She could just be making blankets now,… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
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