Quotes About Pastime

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Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. ... Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

It you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

I like to fish. I always go when I'm on holidays in Spain.

I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.

I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

Clarissa: Talbot, it is so delightful to have you back again. I shall now have such charming evenings with you at chess. Talbot: At what? Clarissa: Chess — the king of games. Talbot: Do you call it a game? Ha! ha! No, thankee; life's too short for chess.

Vodka is kind of a hobby.

Sport is escapism. Sport is a release.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

The King's private, and preferred, life was that of a country squire. In cultural or intellectual pursuits he had no interest whatsoever; he loathed travel. George V was never happier than when shooting at Balmoral or at Sandringham.

I like to read. I like to spend time on the Net. I like to watch movies.

So chess is kind of this nice thing that I have no real aspiration for. It's just a frivolous thing I can enjoy.

I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games.

I'm always playing Madden, Halo, and College Football. If I'm at home, chances are I'm playing one of those three. I've had every videogame console since Nintendo.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

They don't mind it; it's a regular holiday to them—all porter and skittles.

During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.