Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. — James Atlas Copy Share Image
“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.” — John Cooper Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain. — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park. — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I intend to abuse your kind, trusting nature for the sake of my own moderate, short-lived amusement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“My life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel. It was a drama of many scenes and without… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Still in Bed?" Thomas had asked with amusement, as Lissianna had blinked at them. "I am so glad you got at least… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
“at some point, your trip to the amusement park will end. And you’ll feel like an idiot if you spent the whole… — Jesse Tevelow Copy Share Image
Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy?" Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I… — William D. Burt Copy Share Image
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields — Edward Young Copy Share Image
ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement. — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“This how it always feels to be with her—a mixture of amusement and admiration and exasperation.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir. — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
