Neil Simon Quotes

I didn't have weekends for the longest time and it felt so indulgent to finally have weekends.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.

For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

You can't work all your life.

I have worked all of my life, so I really don't have any hobbies.

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

I work very, very hard, so when I do get the chance to go out socially, it's a relatively big night. I also have hobbies on the side, and quite often, one runs into the other.

I like working. But now I have a deal with my wife that I take a half-day off each week.

I don't really take vacations.

Workin' so hard every night and day and now we get to lay back.

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

Have a day off, which is very rare in our line of work, but that's something we like to do. Like I said, it's a nice way to take your mind off the game and just go out and relax and have fun.

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. Having four days off would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

I film so much and I'm working so much that when I do get even a Saturday or a Sunday off, I just literally watch movies or sleep or hang out with my close friends and relax.