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Recreation Sport - Observing the younger generation gradually overtake the older. Ron Sitton Work is for people who don't know how to fish. First Law of Bicycling- Not matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too? T.V. is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright Frisbeetarianism: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. The Law of Frisbee- The most powerful force in the world is a disc straining to land under a car, just out of reach. This force is technically called "car suck." 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 Hamlet is a coarse and barbarous play. One might think the work is a product of a drunken savage's imagination. Voltaire Since eat and drink we must, if we must, if we wish to live, why not make the daily task of our meals a hobby as well? They will cost us no more; they will be much more pleasant; above all, they will do us much more good. Andre L. Simon A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. Mencken People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. Aldous Huxley Music has charms to soothe a savage breast; to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. William Congreve A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. George Bernard Shaw The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. Mencken Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always got on ones nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. Oscar Wilde When an artist is more concerned with what is said than how it is said there is no art. Robinson Jeffers I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G. K. Chesterton An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise. Howell Wagner's music is better than it sounds. Mark Twain I hate music, especially when it's played. Jimmy Durante No books are lost by lending except those you particularly wanted to keep. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Oh, he flies through the air with the greatest of ease, This daring young man on the flying trapeze. George Levbourne There are two ways to hate poetry: Hate poetry, or read Alexander Pope. Oscar Wilde Warm beer and cold women, I just do not fit in, All the joints I stumbled into tonight That's just how it's been. Tom Waits There's thirteen-hundred-and-fifty-two guitar pickers in Nashville. John Sebastian Inasmuch as three quarters of the earth's surface is water and only one fourth is land, the good Lord's intentions are very clear. A man's time should be divided -- three fourths for boating and one fourth for work. When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away. Robert M. Hutchins I learned to play a mean guitar, I was underage in a funky bar, I stepped outside and smoked myself a "j." Paul Simon One goes to see a tragedy to be moved; to the opera one goes for want of any other interest or to facilitate digestion. Voltaire No dice said the gambler. In the case of many poets, the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible. T.S. Eliot The best number for a dinner party is two - myself and a damn good head waiter. Nubar Gulbenkian I have had my television aerials removed. Its the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. Malcolm Muggeridge Hidden talent counts for nothing. Nero Art is long, but life is short. Hippocrates Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient. Goethe Criticism is the art wherewith a critic tries to guess himself into a share of the artists fame. George Jean Nathan Dice games are a lot of crap. Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. William Gilmore Beymer I don't want a pickle.. I just want to ride on my motorcycle. Arlo Guthrie Art is what you can get away with. Andy Warhol All television is children's television. Richard P. Adler When the going gets tough - the tough go dancing. Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. E.M. Cioran The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others. Paul Fussell You must love music or be a duck.Steve Reich People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. Marcel Proust Complex minds require simple play. Spock Precisely the same qualities that make the educated gentleman an artist may make an uneducated manual laborer an able-bodied pauper. George Bernard Shaw Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. Oscar Wilde Poetry is nobody's business except the poets, and everybody else can fuck off. Philip Larkin The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. Franklin P. Jones Who loves not wine, women and song, remains a fool his whole life long. Martin Luther All musical shortcomings are a direct result of the limitation of the listener's mind. Ron Sitton Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. Lazarus Long Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. Chesterfield I just put my feet in the air and move them around. Fred Astaire Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. Oscar Wilde Poetry is what is lost in translation. Robert Frost Just cuz my face graces this place does not imply my mind is nearby. Ron Sitton Don't tell me not to burn the candle at both ends, tell me where I can buy more wax. Recreation is only a relaxation of the mind. Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009. 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