Amusement Quotes
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- Amusement to an observing mind is study.~ Benjamin Disraeli
- A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.~ Logan Pearsall Smith
- Beauty can’t amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.~ Helen Gurley Brown
- Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.~ Alfred E. Smith
- Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused.~ Amusement Quotes
- Cards were at first for benefits designed: sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.~ David Garrick
- Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.~ Robert M. Hutchins
- Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.~ George W. Harvey
- Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.~ George Bernard Shaw
- If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.~ François Fénelon
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring and youth — the former from the year, the latter from human life.~ Honore De Balzac
- Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.~ George Bernard Shaw
- Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.~ Oliver Goldsmith
- Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.~ Giambattista Vico
- Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.~ Robert C. Savage
- Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.~ Laurence Sterne
- Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.~ Mahatma Gandhi
- The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.~ Jacques Chardonne
- The main obligation is to amuse yourself.~ Sydney Joseph Perelman
- The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.~ Phaedrus
- The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.~ Edgar Watson Howe
- The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.~ Joshua Reynolds
- To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.~ Joseph Addison
- To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.~ Oscar Wilde
- Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.~ George Bancroft
- We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.~ Evelyn Waugh
- We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.~ Marguerite Gardiner
- When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.~ Samuel Johnson
- You can’t live on amusement. It is the froth on water — an inch deep and then the mud.~ George MacDonald
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