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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's why I don't think it will date.
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
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.
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.
I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.
A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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.
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.
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.
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!
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.
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.
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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!
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
I certainly did work at an amusement park. In 1985. Wow - I'm in denial about the year. I was in college, and I had no skills.
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
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.
Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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.
At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.
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.
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks.
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it.
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.
This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
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.
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.
I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement?
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
The shopping centres that have come up in Noida are amazing. There are amusement parks and other good family outing spots.
Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.
I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.
I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.
