“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.” ShouldFunNationsSportsPleasureViewsShareShould HaveBudgetsProductiveRecreationProductive Work Author:Walt Disney
“Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.” IfsMayAsksSportsPleasureSeaExerciseRiversFishesInnocentBoatExcellentLakesFishingProtestSweetestRecreationDecrease Author:Thomas Bastard
“The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.” MenBookPrayerPleasureSubjectsDelightWrathRecreationDoingsIra Author:Juvenal
“Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.” IfsMenSleepPleasureSourceMoralityLaborInnocentForbiddenFountainRelaxationMaximsRecreationIntervalsLiableIntemperance Author:Orville Dewey
“Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.” PleasureRecreation Author:Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
“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.” MenHas BeensBookDonePleasureWifeWrittenVariousOfficialsLeisureProtectedHouseholdSecretaryBeing A WomanRecreationHouseworkHandicapsHomemakerHomemaking Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.” MenYearsDoeRealAmericaPurposePleasureWeekHe ManAchievementIncreaseAspirationLeisureImpressedUsefulnessRecreationSpursMiningTrue Purpose Author:B. C. Forbes