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• I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

  Mervyn Peake

  Home, Boys, Smell

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.67, The Overlook Press

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• When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sports, Cat, Play

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

  James Reston, Jr.

  War, Golf, Poverty

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• Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

  Thomas Boswell

  Summer, Sports, Baseball

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.

  Alfred Kreymborg

  Ambition, Thinking, Play

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• Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Poetry

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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• Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

  Roger Maris

  Leadership, Sports, Baseball

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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 recreation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Relaxation, Mind, Stronger

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• Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile. I am quite well aware of the hazards of smoking. Smoking is not a healthful pastime, it is true. Smoking is indeed no bracing dip in the ocean, no strenuous series of calisthenics, no two laps around the reservoir. On the other hand, smoking has to its advantage the fact that is a quiet pursuit. Smoking is, in effect a dignified sport.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sports, Growing Up, Fun

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.292, Vintage

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• Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Reading, Poetry, Amount

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• The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

  William Osler

  Doctors, Pills, Looks

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.181, ACP Press

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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 an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Quality, Individual, Possession

  Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.14, Modern Library

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• I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a pastime of mine.

  Kesha

  Animal, Looks, Biting

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, America, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America

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• Toil is the true knight's pastime.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knights, Toil

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

  John Brunner

  War, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Leigh Hunt (1859). “Works”, p.38

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• The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Philosophy, Simple

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Meditation, Alcohol

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• Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Sick

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• Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Pleasure, Overrated

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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 computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside.

  Nick Offerman

  People, Bored, Trying

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Modesty, Time Passing, Excellent

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

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• I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

  Sara Coleridge

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Leisure

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.128

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• In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.

  Philippe Aries

  Children, Games, Play

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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