#Recreation Quotes

“'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.”

“In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.”

“music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.”

“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”

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

“Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.”

“We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.”

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

“Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.”

“Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.”

“The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.”

“Games lubricate the body and the mind.”