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
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for… — Harriet Martineau 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 loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters,… — Cass Gilbert 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
Heroin - A drug that helps you to escape reality, while making it much harder to cope when you are recaptured. — Psyche_Zeroh Copy Share Image
Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I… — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put alot of though into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If there's ever an amusement park called Bag World, I bet it would really start to annoy you after a while how… — Jack Handey 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
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
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