Amusement Quote by John Ortberg

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

— John Ortberg

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

— Alexander Pope

“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

— Rudyard Kipling

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to…

— Leo Tolstoy

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and…

— Aristotle

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

— Oscar Wilde

You can't live on amusement

— Robert Grant

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…

— Charles Spurgeon

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

— John Ortberg

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

— Graeme Simsion

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of…

— William Ellery Channing