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
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I don't understand people who go to amusement parks. I spend most of my time trying NOT to be nauseous. 'Excuse me,… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with… — Susan Sontag 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
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking,… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?”… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days'… — Terry Pratchett 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
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. — Frederick Marryat 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
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
