Amused Quote by William Ellery Channing Download Open image “Life has a higher end, than to be amused.” — William Ellery Channing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amused Higher Life
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest. — William John Locke Copy Share Image
The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused, — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around. — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
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