Johan Huizinga - The things which can make life enjoyable remain th

The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

Topics

Citations

Huizinga, Johan. The Waning of the Middle Ages. Translated by F. Hopman, Edward Arnold & Co., 1924.

Related Quotes

Marat Safin

I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

Stewart Butterfield

Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or flirting - those are some of the best parts about being alive.

Kaka

It's nice to play in America.

Tom Petty

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

John Green

But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.

Alexander McCall Smith

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

Blaise Pascal

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Jimmy Wales

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

Martin Milner

I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.

Katy Perry

I just like having fun.

Harold Pinter

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

Nadia Giosia

I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!