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Quotes About Recreation

Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.
~ Marion D. Hanks
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
~ St Thomas Aquinas
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
~ Jack Benny
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
~ Bill Watterson
We're living in a re-issue world, filching from the past like magpies with a Tardis.
~ Mark E. Smith
The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.
~ Mark Hoppus
All I want to do is yoga and hike, and smoke weed. It's funny.
~ Miley Cyrus
Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.
~ Unknown
G'bye, I'm going out to play!
~ Shel Silverstein
Do you ever take a holiday? Like, do any of you just wake up and think 'Today feels like a pyjama day.'? or is it always, 'Today is a good day for murdering and stalking.'?
~ Catherine Doyle, Inferno
My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
~ Gary Allan
Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
~ Will Rogers
Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.
~ Samuel Johnson
What's the most popular pastime in America? Autoeroticism, hands down.
~ Unknown
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
~ Unknown
Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).
~ Mary Beard
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
~ Blaise Pascal
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
~ Raymond Hitchcock
A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth. Lucien Fairchild
~ Mary Jo Putney
I've found that child's play -stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy- was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.
~ Matt Groening
When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.
~ Matthew Bourne
Why replicate this world that has gone? Because it was so perfect? But it was not. But it was. Perfect because it was the world before the world changed.
~ Unknown
A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.
~ Melvil Dewey