In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin. — John Ortberg 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
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
A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement. — James Carlos Blake 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
“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
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
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly.… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days'… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give… — Karen Marie Moning 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
“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
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
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
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
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. — Thomas Jefferson 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
“You must dream your life with great care. Instead of living it as merely an amusement.” — Arthur Cravan Copy Share Image
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. — Plato Copy Share Image
