To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the…

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one…

— Josh Billings

A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found…

— Lucy Larcom

“From the corner of her eyes, Arima could see Leyla putting a hand over her mouth to muffle her giggles, and Myddrin had an…

— Stephanie Beerden

“You." I gasped. "Me," he agreed, amused.”

— Julie Berry

“Well at least your awake," he sighs "You had me worried." "Get your hands away from me." He waves sheathed fingers in front of…

— Tahereh Mafi

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused…

— Joseph Priestley

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I…

— Margaret Atwood

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as…

— W. H. Auden

Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might…

— David Ignatius

I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused,

— Wil Wheaton

I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…

— Isaac Newton

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with…

— Henry Watson Fowler

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

— Bela Lugosi

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”

— Neil Gaiman