Amusement Quote by Alexander Pope

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

— Blaise Pascal

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in…

— Robert Breault

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we…

— Adam Smith

I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places…

— Cass Gilbert

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

— Blaise Pascal

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment…

— Simon Pegg

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense…

— Goldie Hawn

“My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age…

— Cicero

If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,'…

— Brian Johnson

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You…

— Brad Pitt

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily…

— Paul McCartney