Amusement Quotes

346 Amusement quotes by 265 unique authors

I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit?… — J. Michael Bishop
If there's ever an amusement park called Bag World, I bet it would really start to annoy you after a while how they really sort… — Jack Handey
A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture… — Federico Garcia Lorca
... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well… — Winston Churchill
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms… — Willard Fiske
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. — Edmund Muskie
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy… — Josef Pieper
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. — Alexander Pope
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for… — Mark Twain
To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices… — Susan Sontag
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement.… — John W. Davis
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. — Aristotle
Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to… — Rob Brezsny
Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man hates nothing as… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was… — Dervla Murphy
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable… — Leo Tolstoy
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take… — Claude C. Hopkins
On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite… — Samuel Johnson
Amusement to an observing mind is study. — Benjamin Disraeli
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. — George Bernard Shaw
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead… — Oscar Wilde
Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement. — Kathleen Winsor
Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform… — Dave Barry
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:… — William Strunk, Jr.

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