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Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
— Blaise Pascal
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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!
— Tammin Sursok
Oh, that's the pot calling the kettle black.Amusement flowed through the connection as Seth said, Or it's the pot calling the pot a pot. — Jennifer L. Armentrout
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
— Paddy Chayefsky
In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family. — Chris Bohjalian
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
— Will Rogers
I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.
— Burgess Meredith
Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.
— Paul C. Nagel
I don't talk for your amusement.
— Henry James
I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
— Bill Watterson
Games of chance fell outside the boundaries of urban reformers' definitions of respectable labor and amusement
— LaShawn Harris
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.
— Darren Aronofsky
You're not celibate, then?" I breathe. Amusement lights up his eyes.
"No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate. — E.L. James
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
— Armistead Maupin
I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.
— Philip Palmer
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.
— Bela Lugosi
If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.
— Amanda Palmer
Strom held her gaze, his ferocity once again turning to amusement. "I understand why your mate chose you.
— Marissa Meyer
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
— John Ortberg
We are here for our amusement.
— Joe Abercrombie
Another dead body at the amusement park," she said. "Wholesome family fun at its finest.
— Jennifer Hillier
Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.
— Natalie Tyler
For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.
— Hanna Abi Akl
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.
— Chris Van Allsburg
He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man ...
— Walter J. Phillips
The prince's eyes shone with amusement at her brashness but lingered a bit too long on her body.
— Sarah J. Maas
Ah," Sean said, smothering a laugh. "The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I'd seen that coming. Oh. Wait. I did.
— Maureen Child
It's not a purse, Rose," Connor chimes in, his lips rising. "It's your future." His amusement is palpable.
— Krista Ritchie
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
— Frederick Lenz
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
— Marilyn Manson
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
— Erich Maria Remarque
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
But then his lips quirked up,and amusement flickered in his eyes.Something else,too - something that made my heart beat faster.
— Lauren Myracle
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
— John Ortberg
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
— Alan Dean Foster
I sometimes wonder whether you think you have been sent into the world for your own amusement.
— C.S. Lewis
I do not cough for my own amusement,' replied Kitty fretfully to her Papa in 'Pride & Prejudice
— Lynne Leonhardt
I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead of the streets.
— David O. McKay
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.
— Cris Mazza
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
— Samuel Johnson
Gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
— Margaret Deland
He eyed her cart with wry amusement. You either have a lot of very little flashlights, or a busy vibrator.
— Jill Shalvis
Amusement, even ironic amusement, is the beginning of sincere appreciation, as any lapsed hipster knows.
— Last Man Standing
Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.
— Neel Burton
What was that?" he whispered, eyes narrowed. There was no mistaking the amusement in the tilt to his lips, though. "Very bad kitty ...
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
— Coco Chanel
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.
— Charles Fort
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
— William Hazlitt
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.
— Winston Churchill
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
— Robert Penn Warren
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.
— Thornton T. Munger
was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement.
— Neil Gaiman
They conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
— James Atlas
You're like a monster, dude'", he says, light amusement coloring his strained voice. "'From a monster movie. The man who would not fucking quit
— Ben H. Winters
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
— Thomas Jefferson
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
— Madame Roland
Irony, when delivered cold and shaved very, very fine, could sound like amusement.
— Julie Anne Long
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
— John Ortberg
Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
— Edmund S. Muskie
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
— Leonard Cohen
Have you met Cather?" Levi said to Reagan, his face still shining with amusement. "She spits hot fire.
— Rainbow Rowell
Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
— Louisa May Alcott
The people must have amusement as well as religion ... every pure enjoyment is from heaven.
— Brigham Young
You must dream your life with great care.Instead of living it as merely an amusement. — Arthur Cravan
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
— George Bancroft
Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
— Paloma Picasso
Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
— D.H. Lawrence
I do not cough for my own amusement.
— Jane Austen
Josie." My name shook with his amusement and it was annoying because the way it did sounded lovely. "She gave me you.
— Kristen Ashley
I laugh because your pain is amusing.
— Lauren Dane
Passion does not translate easily into good income.
— Philip Zaleski
