Pastimes Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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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
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
— Aristotle
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The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . .…
— Salvador de Madariaga
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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.
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Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes.
— Richard Branson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Pastimes Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Pastimes Quotes as follows: