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Let us not teach them, but amuse them.
— Debasish Mridha
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
— Ken Thompson
There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse
— Benjamin Disraeli
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— Robin S. Sharma
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.
— G.K. Chesterton
![Amuse Quotes By Jean Froissart: They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/amuse-quotes-by-jean-froissart-993264.jpg "Amuse Quotes By Jean Froissart: They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in")
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country.[Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.] — Jean Froissart
I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.
— John Malkovich
Pas encore. Qa m'amuse.""Really, Poirot!"
"Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not? — Agatha Christie
Light reading (by this, I mean books of little importance) may amuse for the moment, but leaves nothing solid behind.
— Ron Chernow
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
— Robert Hughes
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
— Oscar Wilde
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
— Cassandra Clare
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
— Alexandre Dumas
Tacos.""Tacos?" I echoed.
This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese."
"I know what a taco is! — Becca Fitzpatrick
The English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.
— M. E. W. Sherwood
Detective stories are mostly bunkum ... But they amuse people ... And they're useful sometimes.
— Agatha Christie
I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.
— Cassandra Clare
Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts
— P.G. Wodehouse
To see Charles, the original lone wolf, caught with a foot in the trap of amorthis will amuse me for a while longer, I think. — Patricia Briggs
I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.
— John Green
For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.
— Hanna Abi Akl
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
— Kevin Wilson
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.
— H. P. Blavatsky
The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.
— Hans Koning
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
— Evelyn Waugh
You might be a redneck if you can amuse yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter.
— Jeff Foxworthy
![Amuse Quotes By Pierre-Auguste Renoir: If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me,](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/amuse-quotes-by-pierre-auguste-renoir-1638444.jpg "Amuse Quotes By Pierre-Auguste Renoir: If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me,")
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before he can frolic.
— George MacDonald
The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.
— Kim Askew
I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
And her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.
— Thomas Jefferson
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
— George Bernard Shaw
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
— Alexander Pushkin
I don't live to amuse you, you know.""One, are you sure? Because you do. And two, we don't make fun of you. Very much. Anymore. And three ... — Rainbow Rowell
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
— Marguerite Gardiner
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends.
— Lauren Santo Domingo
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
— Gertrude Atherton
The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool.
— Bernard Cornwell
I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.
— Jeaniene Frost
Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
— William Least Heat-Moon
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.
— Gilbert Harding
Do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
— Jack Kerouac
You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style.
— Emily Bronte
Ceilings weren't put on rooms to amuse people.
— Haruki Murakami
Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.
— Allen Klein
But then such a book as this is not meant to amuse.
— Richard Wagner
Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.
— Paul Leautaud
Invite them back if you'd like," she called after him. "There's plenty." She was four courses upset and considering an amuse-bouche.
— Louise Penny
Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails.
— Susan Juby
I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.
— Chelsea Handler
The purpose of art is to console and amuse - myself, and, I hope, others.
— Ludwig Bemelmans
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hoursambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children
— L. Frank Baum
Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Happy are those who are satisfied by life, who amuse themselves, who are content.
— Michel Houellebecq
How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.
— John Waters
Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries.
— Daniel Humm
If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
— Frederic William Farrar
My thoughts amuse me.
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
Why is life so hard?""Because god is a spoilt child and this world is just a game he plays to amuse himself. — Anna McPartlin
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
— Ernest Bevin
Sancho tried to amuse him and cheer him up by chatting to him, and said, among other things, what is recorded in the next chapter.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
— George Henry Lewes
![Amuse Quotes By Dr. Seuss: You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/amuse-quotes-by-dr-seuss-1289210.jpg "Amuse Quotes By Dr. Seuss: You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]")
You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]
— Dr. Seuss
If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.
— Amy Dickinson
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
— S.J Perelman
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.— Helen Gurley Brown
In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.
— Erik Valeur
Oh shit, you had to be bloody careful when you invoked God; He could amuse Himself by granting what you'd prayed for ...
— Ariana Franklin
