Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles…

— Jules Verne

“The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.”

— Anonymous

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as…

— William Wordsworth

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

— Bob Hope

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

— Orlando Bloom

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely…

— Steven Pinker

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

— Elvis Presley

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and…

— Anonymous

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

— Henry VIII of England

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.…

— Dana Goodyear

Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes.

— Richard Branson

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

— Mary Russell Mitford