Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime. — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. — John Webster Copy Share Image
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer. — Alexander Ludwig Copy Share Image
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished. — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime… — Roger Maris Copy Share Image
In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor."… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Above all: only grant the suspicion that sport is a pastime for the most stupid as much space as it deserves, do… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! -… — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to… — Charles Comiskey 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
Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to… — David Brin 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
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
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
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
