Pastime

Famous quotes containing the word pastime:

“When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“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 (1913–1960)

“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)