Amusement Quotes

346 Amusement quotes by 265 unique authors

Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly… — Noah Webster
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always… — Winston Churchill
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. — Dorothy L. Sayers
In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in… — Lewis Black
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement, — Strom Thurmond
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators,… — Lewis Tappan
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all… — Christopher Dawson
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found… — Unknown Author
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a… — John Herschel
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest… — Jeremy Bentham
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his… — Thorstein Veblen
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering… — Frank Zappa
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement… — John Masefield
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. — Frederick Marryat
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as… — James Branch Cabell
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for… — Franz Karl Achard
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.... — Joshua Reynolds
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and… — Samuel Johnson
A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement. — James Carlos Blake
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live… — Jan Struther
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal,… — Avery Brundage
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but… — Albert Schweitzer
Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by… — Friedrich Nietzsche
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that… — George Eliot

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