"Most amusements only mean trying to win another……" — Rudyard Kipling
"Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money."
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223 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling has 223 quotes on this site.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all…
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon…
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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps…
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with…
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
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... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by…
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More Amusement Quotes
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one of 346 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the…
— Honore de Balzac
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
— Joey Adams
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
— Max Beckmann
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I…
— Nolan Bushnell
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
— Leonard Cohen
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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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