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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

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

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial. — Paul C. Nagel

I don't talk for your amusement. — Henry James

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain. — Christine Feehan

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

Rub some dirt on it. S'll be fine." "Rub some dirt, then?" he repeated, unable to keep the amusement from his tone. "I like your attitude, lass. — Kresley Cole

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

We live in God's amusement park. — Dean Koontz

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 inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed. — Renzo Rosso

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

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

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

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults? — Marilyn Manson

When casting pebbles into water, look at the ripples being formed thereby. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement. — K. Prutkov

It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest influence on us. — T. S. Eliot

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. — Frederick Lenz

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

It's not a purse, Rose," Connor chimes in, his lips rising. "It's your future." His amusement is palpable. — Krista Ritchie

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

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

But then his lips quirked up,and amusement flickered in his eyes.Something else,too - something that made my heart beat faster. — Lauren Myracle

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it. — David Storey

Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain

You any good with that SIG?" Matt asked. Parker's voice held a trace of amusement. "Not bad. — Toni Anderson

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

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

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium. — Gina Barreca

Let the prisoner go. She's not here for your amusement nor for your pleasure. — Neel Kay

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials. — Queen Victoria

Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces. — Ivars Peterson

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 — Aristotle.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest. — Neel Burton

I watch him with amusement. There's a blue light special on territorial jocks in aisle four. — Kendare Blake

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,
call it which you will,
is a book ... — Nathaniel Hawthorne

What's a self-respecting amusement park without a ghost? — Stephen King

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. — Winston S. Churchill

I feel I deserve a little amusement at someone else's expense. That is all. I have worked for it. I have paid for it. And I propose to have it. — Dorothy Dunnett

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

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg

I sometimes wonder whether you think you have been sent into the world for your own amusement. — C.S. Lewis

Amusement, even ironic amusement, is the beginning of sincere appreciation, as any lapsed hipster knows. — Last Man Standing

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

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle.

( ... ) I'm not much of anything, ( ... ) besides bored and boring, punctuated by fits of scant self-amusement. And you are ... ? — Chip Kidd

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

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

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

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. — Jon Stewart

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

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing. — Criss Jami

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

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. — Max Ernst

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

Oh, go ahead and giggle," Lady Danbury sighed. "I've found that the only way to avoid parental frustration is to view him as a source of amusement. — Julia Quinn

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

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. — Petrarch