By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Amusement touched the corner of his lips. "Animals love me." "Oh, I'm sure they do," Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
It's always a thrilling experience to go into a place that offers you a lot of choice. You know it's like it… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“People on Earth engaged in ritual repetition; most of them thought as little as possible; most of them occupied themselves with things… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He huffed in amusement. She had the unique ability to attract danger even when in benign situations. Perhaps he should amend his… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best… — Will Self Copy Share Image
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's why I don't think it will date. — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
