Quotes About Pastimes

I'm not a golfer. I don't fish. I don't even watch TV.

They spoke from a distant past when everyone read books and most people had hobbies, made things, played cards and chess, dressed up and played charades, sewed and painted and wrote letters and sent postcards.

War is the least productive of men's pastimes, and the most indulgent.

I rarely go out, and I am not interested in golf or anything like that.

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

I've loved boxing due to the history of boxing. It was one of the great American pastimes.

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

At Coucy's level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out—to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries were served from which live birds were released to be caught by hawks unleashed in the banquet

At Coucy's level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out—to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries were served from which live birds were released to be caught by hawks unleashed in the banquet hall.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds.

Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.

Deriving just as much pleasure as ever from a set of sports and pastimes which seemed to have been chosen by him with a view to causing his family the maximum amount of pain and anxiety.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Pastimes form the basis for the selection of acquaintances, and may lead to friendship. A party of women who drop in at each other's houses every morning for coffee to play "Delinquent Husband" are likely to give a cool reception to a new neighbor who wants to play "Sunny Side Up.

Games are clearly differentiated from procedures, rituals, and pastimes by two chief characteristics: (1) their ulterior quality and (2) the payoff. Procedures may be successful, rituals effective, and pastimes profitable, but all of them are by definition candid; they may involve contest, but not conflict, and the ending may be sensational, but it is not dramatic. Every game, on the other hand, is basically dishonest, and the outcome has a dramatic, as distinct from merely exciting, quality.

The essential characteristic of human play is not that the emotions are spurious, but that they are regulated. This is revealed when sanctions are imposed on an illegitimate emotional display. Play may be grimly serious, or even fatally serious, but the social sanctions are serious only if the rules are broken. Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.

You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

Sometimes, you just need hobbies.

I have hobbies.

When I am not shooting, it gives me time to follow my other hobbies.

I probably need to get a few more hobbies besides sports because that's pretty much what I've done my whole life.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.