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Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty. -- William Shakespeare
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. -- Erma Bombeck
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I. -- Henry VIII of England
We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women. -- Mindy Kaling
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year. -- Mark McGwire
I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time. -- Priyanka Chopra
If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers. -- Hedy Lamarr
When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again. -- Lauren Conrad
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. -- Avery Brundage
Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime. -- Ken Burns
The national pastime is juiced, -- Jose Canseco
My favorite pastime is to write. -- Danny Bonaduce
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. -- Jean Cocteau
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. -- Phyllis McGinley
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. -- Robert Benchley
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. -- Aristotle
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. -- Arthur Miller
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. -- Mary Russell Mitford
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. -- Albert Camus
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. -- William Wordsworth
To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self- therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime. -- Haruki Murakami
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime. -- Babe Ruth
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. -- George Orwell
Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery. -- Stephen Crane
The national pastime is juiced. -- Jose Canseco
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. -- Lou Gehrig
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. -- John Webster
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating. -- P. Chidambaram
This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it. -- Matt Taibbi
I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming. -- Linus Torvalds
My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after 'Jagged Little Pill,' the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one. -- Alanis Morissette
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil. -- Jules Verne
True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. -- Eric Liu
We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if I want to... Our favorite pastime is trying to take pictures of our hometowns from space. -- Kevin A. Ford
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime. -- George Herman
I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it? -- Curtis Stone
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials. -- Evan Bayh
Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife's cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning. -- Mark Barrowcliffe
I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre... but they don't. They expect to sit back and not participate. -- Sarah Kane
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods. -- Rachel Cusk
To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all. -- Charles Comiskey
Shooting is my principal pastime. -- William S. Burroughs
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers. -- George Herbert
Toil is the true knight's pastime. -- Charles Kingsley
Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions. -- Mason Cooley
Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime. -- Natalie Goldberg
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. -- Phyllis McGinley
I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime. -- Elvis Presley
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations. -- Alexander Borodin
gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion. -- Patience Strong
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning. -- Ronald Reagan
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. -- Ambrose Bierce
Nap time would become a national pastime. A man needs his beauty rest! -- Si Robertson
Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States. -- Pete Sampras
Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime. -- George Will
I did some thinking." "That is a very dangerous pastime," Ghastek said. -- Ilona Andrews
World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. -- Victoria Aveyard
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer. -- Alexander Ludwig
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. -- Audrey Hepburn
I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime. -- Babe Ruth
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime. -- Joseph Cornell
Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking. -- Bob Hope
So I won't. I won't think of it, and I'll make procrastination my new national pastime. -- Kendra Blake
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason. -- Moliere
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. -- Etgar Keret
It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans. -- Phyllis Schlafly
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! -- William Shakespeare
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. -- Wislawa Szymborska
I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime. -- James Patterson
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable. -- Lord Chesterfield
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion. -- Elizabeth Reyes
I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore. -- Taylor Swift
I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. -- Howard Staunton
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it. -- Joseph Monninger
You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport. -- Harrison Ford
Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants. -- Mirabel Osler
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education. -- John Henry Newman
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.
I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her. -- Cassandra Clare
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potionsâ?¦ -- William Osler
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence. -- Isadora Duncan
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating." -- P. Chidambaram
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television. -- Bob Greene
I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery. -- Frank McCourt
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime. -- Peter Lynch
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue. -- August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes. -- Judith McNaught
Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement. -- Jeff Schaffer
... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer. -- Devon Monk
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together, -- Elio Di Rupo
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
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together. -- Elio Di Rupo
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
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
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
You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime. -- William Shakespeare
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment. -- Curt Flood
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person -- Albert Camus
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
If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life. -- Robert Towne
Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs. -- Amy Sedaris
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books -- Robertson Davies
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything. -- Brenda Ueland
However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure. -- John Thorn
My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that. -- Noel Gallagher
In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around. -- Condola Rashad
You had to give credit to anyone who managed to excel at their chosen pastime, be it golf, hang-gliding or hoovering up cocaine with the speed and efficacy of a Dyson Turbo." -- Jamie Holoran
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
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men. -- Steven Pinker
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite? -- Terry Tempest Williams
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite~? -- Terry Tempest Williams

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