What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's cute the way you ignore the red squiggly line under all of your words. — Psyche_Zeroh Copy Share Image
The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment… — Charles Spurgeon 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
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no… — William Glasser M.D Copy Share Image
For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen,… — Anita Loos 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
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
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
To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes. — Harold Russell 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
Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement. — Paloma Picasso 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
