quotations about hobbies
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
attributed, Life's Simple Guide to Happiness
Hobbies are great distractions from the worries and troubles that plague daily living.
BILL MALONE
attributed, The A to Z Guide to Healthier Living
The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Mill on the Floss
Make time to follow your passion and never let your hobbies and interests take a back seat.
RICHA DWIVEDI
"12 Things a Woman Should Never Change For Her Husband", wittyfeed, 2017
A hobby is only fun if you do not have time to do it.
LEO BEENHAKKER
attributed, Tweet This Book: The 1,400 Greatest Quotes of All Time in 140 Characters Or Less
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
ANONYMOUS
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
SCOTT ALEXANDER
attributed, The Hobby Income Blueprint: Turning Your Passions Into Online Profits
You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
LARRY PAGE
commencement address at the University of Michigan, May 2, 2009
Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.
JOHN UPDIKE
Picked-Up Pieces
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
Hobbies are universally regarded as a prime form of relaxation and people generally anticipate their retirement as the period when they will at last have more time to devote to these hobbies. In many cases this is indeed true, but in many others the very opposite comes to pass. The very hobbies which during the working years were prized forms of relaxation and satisfaction lose their appeal and their novelty when they are pursued full time during the retirement years. It is one thing to steal precious time to enjoy a hobby; it is an entirely different matter when the hobby becomes a means of killing time.
JEROME H. BLASS
The Family Counselor
Beware the hobby that eats.
ANONYMOUS
A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
No hobby should either seek or need rational justification. To wish to do it is reason enough. To find reasons why it is useful or beneficial converts it at once from an avocation into an industry.
ALDO LEOPOLD
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
To be happy in life, develop at least four hobbies: one to bring you money, one to keep you healthy, one to bring you joy, and one to bring you peace.
STAN JACOBS
The Dusk and Dawn Master
Find what you love and let it kill you.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
attributed, Greatest Motivational and Inspirational Quotes on Life, Love and Happiness
Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.
STEFAN SAGMEISTER
attributed, Culturevore
A hobby is a happy medium between a passion and a monomania.
HONORE DE BALZAC
The Wisdom of Balzac
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies, and I had every hobby there was. There was no hobby I didn't have, name anything, no matter how esoteric, I had found it and dabbled in it. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
"McCarthy's Venomous Fiction", New York Times Magazine, April 19, 1992
Hobbies are a contradiction; they take work and turn it into leisure, and take leisure and turn it into work.
STEVEN M. GELBER
Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America