“Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.”
Barbara Cheney
“Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. (This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.)”
Dave Barry
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well...”
Steve Martin
“Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false”
Charles Sanders Peirce
“Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.”
Scott Alexander
“Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.”
Larry Flynt