Quotes About Recreation

I hope you're golfing today.

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 ball.

First (but not last) lesson about futility of trying to replicate good thing or good experience—never as good second time, only causes disappointment.

Watch TV or something. That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the or something part.

no matter how bad things got, we could always make ourselves new again.

Encourage your present friends to be active so that you can continue to enjoy recreation with them.

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

Translator's Note: When the violin repeats what the piano has just played, it cannot make the same sounds and it can only approximate the same chords. It can, however, make recognizably the same "music", the same air. But it can do so only when it is as faithful to the self-logic of the violin as it is to the self-logic of the piano.

When I'm king", said Angel, "I'll outlaw golf.

Interestingly enough, it is now known that play behaviour is not limited to birds and mammals. Monitor lizards, turtles, crocodiles and even fish and cephalopods have been reported to engage in behaviours that do not seem to serve any other purpose than simply having fun.27,28 If all these animals could play, we are certain that Mesozoic dinosaurs could, too.

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Sports is the toy department of life.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

I like to find things in real life that let me get involved. Or if you need a break, go hang out with your family.

Life is great and golf has been one of the great parts of it for me.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be.