Amusement Quotes

346 Amusement quotes by 265 unique authors

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass… — Pliny the Elder
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — Leo Tolstoy
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets… — Bruce Sterling
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement. — Thomas Jefferson
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul. — Plato
When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining… — Peter Singer
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in… — Stanley Kubrick
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 all… — Charles Spurgeon
Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its… — Charles Spurgeon
To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy. — John Diamond
I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead… — David O. McKay
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the same… — Jeff Schweitzer
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm… — Samuel Johnson
Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money. — Rudyard Kipling
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. — Madame Roland
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. — Plato
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves;… — Blaise Pascal
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and… — Washington Gladden
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to… — William Howard Taft
There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the… — Robert Breault
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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