Hobby Quotes

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Once made, a quilt is not your own. Someone will claim it as theirs or rename it. It will be called something like Mom’s quilt or Nana’s quilt. It will be thought of and missed by college students, on their own for the first time, as a warm sanctuary when they were at home. Little […]

It’s the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

De gustibus non est disputandum; – that is, there is no disputing against Hobby-Horses; and for my part, I seldom do; nor could I with any sort of grace, had I been an enemy to them at the bottom; for happening, at certain intervals and changes of the moon, to be both fidler and painter, […]

So long as a man rides his hobby-horse peaceably and quietly along the King’s highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him, pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?