A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
“(...) I'm not much of anything, (...) besides bored and boring, punctuated by fits of scant self-amusement. And you are ...?” — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a… — David Storey Copy Share Image
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — Albert Schweitzer 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
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill 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
“He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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