W. H. Davies Quotes

The cool thing about going to Vegas is that it's kind of like visiting a bunch of cities all at one time. All the shows and great restaurants leave you with a lot of options.

I've never even been to Long Island

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.

That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating.

I have two skateboards, but I don't get to use them much. I have a snowboard, which I've never used.

I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

But the judge would have to be people in the fashion world and a bunch of random girls. Because guys in the league aren't trying to impress guys in the league. They're trying to impress people who have clout in the fashion world and women.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

No nation respects a beggar.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.

I am not one of those people who like to play. I don't. I'm neither coy, nor do I, in any way, want to ask anyone to put up with somebody playing Hamlet.

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign!

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.