Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it… — William Cobbett 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
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people… — Lady Gregory 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 said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas'… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields — Edward Young Copy Share Image
When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
