7 quotes about Recreation



The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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