The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal
The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution. . . looking for a loophole.
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.
The best recreation is to do good.
I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
Art is both creation and recreation.
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.
Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.