John Thorn Quotes

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read.

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

we admonish that men keep Sunday's festival with all their might, and observe it from Saturday's noon to Monday's dawning; and no man be so bold that he either go to market or seek any court on that holy day

Traditional autocrats leave in place existing allocations of wealth, power, status, and other re-sources which in most traditional societies favor an affluent few and maintain masses in poverty. But they worship traditional gods and observe traditional taboos. They do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations.

Make the study of the Torah your chief occupation; speak little, but accomplish much.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study …. Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

Just the little bit that I've learned about Judaism, I didn't realize how, dare I say, intense that religion is as far as all of the things that you have to know and remember and the ritualism of it.

Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.

I love playing ping pong.

Tennis is a funny sport.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!

Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.