Quotes with amusement

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  • Joseph Addison To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Samuel Johnson A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Queen Victoria A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Amusement to an observing mind is study.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Lydon Rotten I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
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  • Armistead Maupin I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bryan Batt My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Edna Ferber Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Beverly Jones Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
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  • Oscar Wilde The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Blaise Pascal To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Samuel Johnson While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Winston Churchill Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • George Macdonald You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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