Amusement Quotes
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.
Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.
You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch.
The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.
Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.
The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.
Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.
Passion does not translate easily into good income.
For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.
Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?
Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks.
