Pastimes Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. — P.J. O'Rourke
In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . .… — Salvador de Madariaga
By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes. — Richard Branson
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after… — Seneca the Younger
Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth,… — Hesketh Pearson
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated… — Mary McCarthy
I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are… — Billy Campbell
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. — John Milton
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who… — George Steiner
The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in… — Theodore Roosevelt
You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me… — Knut Hamsun
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts… — Audre Lorde
I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with… — Gary Gygax
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from… — John Boyle O'Reilly
When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or… — Nick Offerman
It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities.… — Bob Black

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