Amusements Quotes
63 quotes by 53 authors
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former…
— Honore de Balzac
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
— Samuel Johnson
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I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst…
— Marcel Proust
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
— Plutarch
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
— Aristotle
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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements....
— Joshua Reynolds
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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
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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
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