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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. — George Bernard Shaw

Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now. — Rick Warren

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. — Voltaire

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. — George Bernard Shaw

We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! — Sydney Smith

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. — Voltaire

Naturally, we shopped, we had lunch, we did homework and we cleaned closets together. But beyond those mundane amusements - and — Dorothea Benton Frank

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. — Samuel Johnson

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. — George Eliot

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises. — Ellen G. White

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. — Joshua Reynolds

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. — William Makepeace Thackeray

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. — Hugh Blair

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements. — Plutarch

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want. — Mark Morris

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. — James Madison

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. — Seneca The Younger

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Worship isn't merely a yes to the God who saves, but also a resounding and furious no to the lies that echo in the mountains around us. — Mike Cosper

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. — Ammianus Marcellinus

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control. — Sherri Shepherd

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") — Gertrude Atherton

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

How foolish that expectation had been! He knew now that one might as well hope to see the wind, or speculate about the true shape of fire. — Arthur C. Clarke

There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes. — Epictetus

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.

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

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money. — Rudyard Kipling

we are free of each other, and yet not, and never will be. — Elizabeth Strout