To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life… — John Diamond 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
I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
“People on Earth engaged in ritual repetition; most of them thought as little as possible; most of them occupied themselves with things… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense… — Francois Rabelais 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
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He huffed in amusement. She had the unique ability to attract danger even when in benign situations. Perhaps he should amend his… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
It has to be now,” he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. “After… — Lisa Kleypas 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
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
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to… — Roman Coppola 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
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
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Amusement touched the corner of his lips. "Animals love me." "Oh, I'm sure they do," Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them… — Claude C. Hopkins 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
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. — Petrarch 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
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best… — Will Self Copy Share Image
... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I'm horrible at these things, 'cause I'm a horrible date.What's a good date? A nice dinner and a movie? I don't know.… — Drake Bell Copy Share Image
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
![“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take…” quote by John W. Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ef/john-w-davis-32194_amusement_true-we-lawyers-build-no-bridges-we-rais_2415091.jpg)
