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The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer. — Samuel Chadwick

How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could. — Jack Gilbert

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. — Michel De Montaigne

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. — Izaak Walton

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it. — Tom Stoppard

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation. — Orville Dewey

Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young — Susa Young Gates

It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under. — Fennel Hudson

recreation, was already talking — Michael J. Tougias

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. — Edward Bellamy

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts. — Confucius

During its nearly one hundred years of existence, [the Forest Service] has consistently demonstrated a preference for exploitation over recreation. — Don Scheese

Conservation must become before recreation. — Prince Charles

Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry. — E. V. Knox

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. — Bill Watterson

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds. — Philip Guedalla

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world. — John W. Gardner

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body. — Laura Joh Rowland

Can we all admit that 'Parks and Recreation' is horrible? Is this something we would all know, but don't say? Maybe everything should not be improv'd. — Andy Kindler

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose — Winston S. Churchill

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

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance. — George M. Church

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation. — Vladimir Lenin

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control. — Janice Hahn

I'm not compromised by the ravages of adult recreation ... — Ron Currie Jr.

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement, — Strom Thurmond

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. — Ambrose Bierce

Tobin Hart calls play "the holy work of children" that helps them "find and define themselves."[2] — Tobin Hart

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. — Stephen Ambrose

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives. — Jack Canfield

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation. — George F. Will

He'd had a great baptism into the joys of Recreation and some of the intrigue and delights it could possibly offer. — Jill Thrussell

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall. — Frederick Rolfe

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

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

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active. — Lee Haney

Man is for war; woman for the recreation of the warrior. — E. M. Forster

It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess. — David Toms

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens. — Robin Boyd

Cabal slapped him hard. Perhaps harder than necessary, but he felt he deserved a little recreation. — Jonathan L. Howard

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. — Brigham Young

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. — Alan Parker

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

Families must spend more time together in work and recreation. — Ezra Taft Benson

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. — Horace

Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution ... looking for a loophole. — Mort Sahl

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that? — Paula Creamer

He frowned. "Who cares about that? Screw the gerbils."
"Screw them?" I raised an eyebrow. "Lyle, this is not your personal recreation time. — Cecily White

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape. — Janet Fitch

There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day's angling. Catching fish is but one of them. — Fennel Hudson

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit. — Johann Sebastian Bach

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company! — Michael Caine

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize. — Eda LeShan

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life. — Thomas Jefferson

The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little. — Maria Monk

rational recreation" genre. Now, however, magic tricks featuring sympathetic ink began to be added, and they — Kristie Macrakis

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. — Blaise Pascal

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair. — William Shakespeare

Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers," Gunnar said. "It is the contemplative man's recreation. — Clare Vanderpool

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation. — Anna Howard Shaw

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot. — Aziz Ansari

We're going jogging."
"I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon."
"That can be arranged, — Karen Chance

I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road. — Aziz Ansari

I've started to kind of hate people, and it's not because I have anything against them. It's just, I enjoy it. It's recreation. — Louis C.K.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. — Bob Hope

Sometimes, the inessential is essential. — T.L. Rese

Women are for procreation, not recreation; they will only distract you. — Malcolm Archibald

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation. — John Locke

When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself. — Bryant McGill

Our self- development is all about conquering and recreating ourselves — Sunday Adelaja

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. — Lewis Carroll

Art is both creation and recreation. — Lin Yutang

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year. — Lee Majors

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. — Henry David Thoreau

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

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character. — Ben Schwartz

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation. — Henry Petroski

The best recreation is to do good. — William Penn

I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania. — Ed Rendell

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. — Francis Quarles

The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts. — Confucius

Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems. — Chris Pratt

We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia — Chris Patten

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too. — Rick Ross

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel De Cervantes

Reading mysteries: the recreation of intelligent minds. — Donna Andrews

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law. — H.C.Paye

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. — John Wanamaker

Angling is a recreation. It's supposed to be fun. — Fennel Hudson

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer. — Samuel I. Prime