quotations about stamp collecting
Son, stamp collecting is like life. It stopped being fun a long time ago.
HOMER SIMPSON
The Simpsons
It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.
DAVE BARRY
Dave Barry's Bad Habits
The king of hobbies or the 'Hobby of Kings', as one might say, stamp collecting is indeed an art by itself.
SARONYO LAL MUKHERJEE
"Make Time Fly", The Statesman, July 24, 2017
Collecting, especially of the classifying sort epitomized by stamp collecting, offered a means to seem to gain control of the world and of the past.
RUSSELL W. BELK
Collecting in a Consumer Society
The postage stamp is a flimsy thing
No thicker than a beetle's wing
And yet it will roam the world for you
Exactly where you tell it to.
E. V. LUCAS
The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.
GRACIE ALLEN
attributed, The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations
There's a new set of stamps coming out soon.... Same old picture of King George's head, God Bless 'em, but tarted up in new colors.
ALAN BRADLEY
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Brave New World
Stamps ... are little pieces of mass produced art and stamp collectors buy them irrespective of price because they find pleasure in the process of finding and then owning them.
RICHARD LEHMANN
"Defining Stamp Investing", Forbes, September 18, 2015
Philately starts where the catalogue ends.
ANONYMOUS
I never could get into traditional hobbies, like religion or stamp collecting. I mean, the way you collect stamps is: Every week or so the Postal Service dreams up a new stamp to mark National Peat Bog Awareness Month, or whatever, and you rush down and clog the Post Office lines to buy a batch of these stamps, but instead of putting them to a useful purpose such as mailing toxic spiders to the Publisher's Clearing House, you take them home and just sort of have them. Am I right? And then the biggest thrill, as I understand it, the real payoff, comes when you get lucky and collect a stamp on which the Postal Service has made a mistake, such as instead of "Peat Bog" it prints "Beat Pog," which causes stamp collectors to just about wet their polyester pants.
DAVE BARRY
Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
If the post office stopped issuing stamps tomorrow, we still have 150-plus years that the world has been issuing stamps. For anyone with any interest in history or culture or geography, it's always going to be a vibrant hobby.
ROD JUELL
"Stamp collecting alive and well in Joliet", The Herald-News, September 29, 2016
The art of stamp-collecting is to get a number of good stamps, not to get a good number of any stamps.
ANONYMOUS
"The Stamp Album: Lessons in Collecting", Boys' Life, February 1912
For seventeen years he did nothing at all, but kill animals and stick in stamps.
SIR HAROLD NICHOLSON
Diaries and Letters about King George V
In many ways, stamp collecting is like the barroom scene from the original 1977 Star Wars movie -- filled with all sorts of exotic creatures from distant reaches. No matter your collecting proclivities, you can always find something odd or unusual in the philatelic universe to peak your particular interest.
MARTIN J. FRANKEVICZ
"The ever-expanding universe of new stamp issues", Linn's Stamp News & Insights, December 31, 2015
Many interesting lines of collecting are practically closed to all but the wealthy. But stamp collecting is open to all, for the expenditure may in its case be limited at the will of the collector to shillings or pounds.
EDWARD JAMES NANKIVELL
Stamp Collecting as a Pastime
The great collectors of stamps were all men of passion. If they did not have passion when they started collecting, they soon developed it, for there is no mistress so demanding as stamps.
CLAUDE STANUSH
"You Just Don't Know What Stamps Can Do To A Man", LIFE Magazine, May 3, 1954
In a world where conversations have evolved from sending postcards to sending emails or text messages, there is still a way to collect stamps -- as a way to preserve history.
MIKE FRECHETTE
"Middletown stamp collecting workshop will introduce basics of philately", Middletown Press, January 4, 2016
Much of the fun of stamp collecting is knowing from what countries stamps come, when they were printed, and what events they commemorate.
DANIEL FOX
Arrowheads of the Central Great Plains
No real collector ever sells his stamps in his lifetime--unless it is to buy more stamps.
CLAUDE STANUSH
"You Just Don't Know What Stamps Can Do To A Man", LIFE Magazine, May 3, 1954