Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I did some thinking.” “That is a very dangerous pastime,” Ghastek said. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. — Lou Gehrig Copy Share Image
“I de siste Dager har jeg tænkt og tænkt paa Nordlandssommerens evige Dag. Jeg sitter her og tænker paa den og paa… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes… The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a… — George Will Copy Share Image
