Pastime Quotes

Pastime Quote of the day

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

My favorite pastime is to write.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.

I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a pastime of mine.

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Shooting is my principal pastime.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.