Allure Quote by Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

— John Ortberg

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

— Alexander Pope

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

— John Ortberg

“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of…

— William Ellery Channing

Encourage innocent amusement.

— Joseph Addison

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little…

— William Hazlitt

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had…

— Charles Spurgeon

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to…

— Leo Tolstoy

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

— John Ortberg

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

— Oscar Wilde