Amusement Quotes

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.

Fly-fishing may be 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.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

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

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead of the streets.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.