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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
