Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

People let their guard down a little more when they're eating.

If you put busy men in an attractive atmosphere where the surroundings are comfortable, the food is good, you relax, you unwind, there’s stimulating conversation. You know, sometimes quite a lot can happen.

I am a great one for just taking it easy and lazing around.

My favorite subject was lunch time.

From labor there shall come forth rest.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

Any extra free time you have, you are sleeping, or you're trying to sleep

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

I'm a big believer in doing what you've got to do, but taking a breather when you can.

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.

Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.

I'm wearing pajamas, every day, at work. It's the best thing, ever!

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

One can say everything best over a meal.