Fatigue Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fatigue Kind Kindness Particular Recreation
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.'… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Recreations are needful at times; but take care of these two things, that your recreations be innocent in themselves, and that you be moderate… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer. — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole… — Hernando Cortes Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Postpartum depression and anxiety that 11-20% of women experience is not at all the same as the more commonly experienced 'baby blues' 80% of… — Judy Dippel Copy Share Image
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time thinking and worrying about fatigue. It is the thing I struggle with the most. — Kadeena Cox Copy Share Image
“Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
