Amusement Quotes

346 Amusement quotes by 265 unique authors

We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I'll just take amusement at being a paradox. — Burgess Meredith
If I were invisible I'd go to the amusement park~ — Yunho
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty… — Henry Ford
One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and… — David Levithan
I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced… — Otis Rush
If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person! — Tammin Sursok
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives… — Samuel Johnson
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a… — Amanda McBroom
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. — Alan Dean Foster
That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me… — Roman Coppola
The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir. — Stephanie Klein
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. — William Makepeace Thackeray
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow… — Herodotus
JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct… — Ambrose Bierce
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing. — Nicolas Chamfort
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed. — R. Buckminster Fuller
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement. — Winston Churchill
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your… — Francois Fenelon
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform. — Thomas Jefferson
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. — Virginia Woolf
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work… — Samuel Johnson

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