Stamp Collecting Quotes

My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd handpicked every item, saying each one reminded him of me. I opened it to discover the pages were full of beige stamps bearing the image of George V. Take from that what you will.

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

When I was a kid, I didn't collect stamps, or weird toys, or anything. I don't even have music - I don't even have a CD collection. So that's not really my thing.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

Bringing back stamp collecting and bringing back bridge seems like a pretty good way to fight the modern world.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones.

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.