Amusements Quotes
63 Amusements quotes by 53 unique authors
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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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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
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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
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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
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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
— Rudyard Kipling
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A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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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
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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
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Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.
— Charles Fort
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
— Samuel Johnson
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring…
— James Madison
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
— Voltaire
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Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
— Ellen G. White
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Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But…
— Neil Postman
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There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this…
— Terry Pratchett
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than…
— C.S. Lewis
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