Amusement Quotes

346 Amusement quotes by 265 unique authors

I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your… — Savannah Guthrie
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement… — Gilbert Burnet
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and… — Paddy Chayefsky
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters,… — Beverley Jones
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to… — Thomas Jefferson
I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss… — Lewis Carroll
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to… — Donald Murray
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it,… — Benjamin Franklin
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of… — Billy Graham
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as… — Lewis Carroll
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could… — Albert Einstein
I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going… — Mark Hamill
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying… — Jonathan Swift
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements. — Plutarch
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure,… — Alexis Carrel
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and… — Isaac D'Israeli
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. — Plato
Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with… — Aulus Cornelius Celsus
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. — Aristotle
I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement,… — George Washington
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to… — H. L. Mencken
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses is our pleasure,… — Gary L. Francione

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