Mr Biffen,’ wrote another, ‘seems not to understand that a…

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield

Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes…

— Rob Brezsny

It has to be now,” he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. “After all, you…

— Lisa Kleypas

I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you…

— Jennifer Rardin

I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with…

— Jim Jarmusch

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…

— Blaise Pascal

My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all…

— Danny McBride

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

— Anne Frank

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through…

— Amanda McBroom

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…

— Pablo Picasso

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

— Bela Lugosi

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

— Blaise Pascal