Pastime Quotes

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. (Erma Bombeck)
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness who read for pastime but not to kill time who love books, but do not live by books. View quote
Robertson Davies
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. View quote
Arthur Miller
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. View quote
William Wordsworth
Music is the universal language of mankind.... poetry their universal pastime and delight. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations. View quote
Alexander Borodin
em>The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought. View quote
Peter Medawar
Toil is the true knight's pastime. View quote
Charles Kingsley
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change. View quote
John Brunner
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
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. (Lauren Conrad)
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. View quote
Avery Brundage
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together. View quote
Elio Di Rupo
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished. View quote
Jim Sensenbrenner
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it. View quote
Joseph Monninger
I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away. It is, to be sure, a most exhilarating sport, but it is only a sport; and it is not to be wondered at that such as have been passionately addicted to the charming pastime should one day ask themselves whether sober reason does not advise its utter dereliction. View quote
Paul Morphy
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them. View quote
George Will
Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown: You thought to break a country heart For pastime, ere you went to town. At me you smiled, but unbeguiled I saw the snare, and I retired; The daughter of a hundred earls, You are not one to be desired. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. View quote
Robert Benchley
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity". View quote
Roland Barthes
... a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, ... a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,... which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star' in Los Angeles. (Georges Duhamel)
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. View quote
Judith McNaught
The makers of sneakers also thoughtfully pocked the soles with numberless crevices, craters, chevrons, mazes, crop circles, and other rubbery hieroglyphs, so that when you stepped in a moist pile of dog shit, as you most assuredly did within three bounds of leaving the house, they provided additional absorbing hours of pastime while you cleaned them out with a stick, gagging quietly but oddly content. View quote
Bill Bryson
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. View quote
Lou Gehrig
A moment guess'd - then back behind the Fold Immerst of Darkness round the Drama roll'd Which, for the Pastime of Eternity, He doth Himself contrive, enact, behold. View quote
Omar Khayyám