Adapted Quote by Samuel Johnson

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A…

— Ai Weiwei

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

— Samuel Johnson

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the…

— Samuel Johnson

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

— Samuel Johnson

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains…

— Samuel Johnson

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of…

— Samuel Johnson

“I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that…

— Mark Twain

I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful;…

— Confucius

Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went…

— George Linley

What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil…

— Alexis de Tocqueville