Top 422 Amusement Quotes & Sayings

I get no amusement having people eyeball me because of my size.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

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

I'm a girl that loves to go to amusement park.

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.

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

I am a temporary amusement.

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

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

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

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

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

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.

We live in God's amusement park.

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

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.

Encourage innocent amusement.

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

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

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

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

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

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!

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

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

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

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.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

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

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

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

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

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

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

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

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

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.

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

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

If I were invisible I'd go to the amusement park~

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