Amusements Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements. — Plutarch
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
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
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
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
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
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle
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
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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