Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things. — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
“My body is not a joke or fodder for amusement, but, I suppose, to many people, it is. My” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings.” — Vladimir Nabokov 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
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. — George Bancroft 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
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
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
“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
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
Give me the effing phone, Strider grumbled, opening his palm and waving his fingers. Effing? William laughed with genuine amusement. You ever… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all… — Lord Chesterfield 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
I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.' Lady Nora:… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they… — John Ruskin 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
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,… — Lord Chesterfield 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
“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
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes. — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement. — Paloma Picasso Copy Share Image
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