Amusement Quotes

Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take action

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me." -Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

All the great amusements are dangerous for the Christian life.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

Mickey [Rourke] one time just basically drove off in the picture car that we were driving in. For my amusement. It was either to kidnap me or for my amusement.

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.