Quotes of Recreation - somelinesforyou

“ Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. ”

- Alan Parker

“ Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. ”

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“ The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do. ”

- Steve Carell

“ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting. ”

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“ In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ A vacation is like love: anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting. ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh

“ Our trips and recreation are down. ”

- Joan Sutherland

“ I put it in a frame and had it down in our recreation room all these years. ”

- John Walsh

“ I think the (recreation) department is well set up for the next person that comes in. It will be a smooth transition... the programs won't suffer. ”

- James Morris

“ But if it would have been a vacation, we wouldn't have made it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. ”

- Richie Allen

“ You always wonder if you can make plays at the end. ”

- Bruce Weber

“ Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. ”

- Duffy Daugherty

“ I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. ”

- George Eliot

“ Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ”

- Izaak Walton

“ Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407 The surest symbol of a heart not yet fully subdued to God and His will is going to be found in the areas of money, sex, and power: in wanting these things for ourselves. The surest symbol of spiritual earnestness will be the checkbook, the affections, and the ego-drive surrendered to Him… ”

- Samuel M. Shoemaker

“ Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. ”

- Anonymous

“ If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ”

- Bob Hope

“ People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. ”

- John Wanamaker

“ Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business. ”

- Raymond Hitchcock

“ To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation. ”

- Gerald B. Fitzgerald

“ To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. ”

- Blaise Pascal
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