“Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?” — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. — Plato Copy Share Image
Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
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
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and… — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go… — Blaise Pascal 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
It's always a thrilling experience to go into a place that offers you a lot of choice. You know it's like it… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,… — Isaac D'Israeli 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
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen… — George Eliot 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
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,… — Virginia Woolf 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
Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him?" Leigh said with gentle amusement. Lucian grunted. "I guess… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“You're not celibate, then?" I breathe. Amusement lights up his eyes. "No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“You're Oberon's blood." A cool note of amusement colored his voice. "Of course you can dance.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Life doesn't give me lemons anymore. Not after what happened last time. — Psyche_Zeroh Copy Share Image
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image