"Seamen have a custom, when they meet a……" — Jonathan Swift

More Amusement Quotes

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• To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that… — Darren Aronofsky
• If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the… — Honore de Balzac
• Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their… — George Bancroft
• Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. — Joey Adams
• Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann
• To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. — Joseph Addison
• I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I… — Nolan Bushnell
• While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept… — Lewis Carroll
• I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they… — Leonard Cohen
• Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the… — W. W. Rouse Ball
• Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who… — Thomas Jefferson
• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind,… — Benjamin Franklin

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