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| The existence of good bad literature --the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously --is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. | Alfred E. Smith | 1873-1944, American Politician |
| AMUSEMENT to an observing mind is study. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and AMUSEMENT of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. | Beverly Jones | 1927-, American Feminist Writer |
| To find recreation in AMUSEMENT is not happiness. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. | David Garrick | 1717-1779, British Actor, Playwright, Theater Manager |
| The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
| We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them. | Evelyn Waugh | 1903-1966, British Novelist |
| Life would be tolerable but for its AMUSEMENTs. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
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| Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| You can't live on AMUSEMENT. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud. | George Macdonald | 1824-1905, Scottish Novelist |
| Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. | Giambattista Vico | 1688-1744, Italian Philosopher, Historian |
| Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can. | Helen Gurley Brown | American Businesswoman, Founder of Cosmopolitan Magazine |
| Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. | Henry Brooks Adams | 1838-1918, American Historian |
| A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and AMUSEMENTs of mankind. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| If those who are the enemies of innocent AMUSEMENTs had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. | Honore De Balzac | 1799-1850, French Novelist |
| It's a na´ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. | James Thurber | 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator |
| What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| I'm not here for your AMUSEMENT. You're here for mine. | John Lydon Rotten | 1957-, British Rock Musician |
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| To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of AMUSEMENT. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. | Laurence Sterne | 1713-1768, British Author |
| A slight touch of friendly malice and AMUSEMENT towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
| Prayer is not an old woman's idle AMUSEMENT. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. | Mahatma Gandhi | 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader |
| We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | 1789-1849, Irish Writer and Socialite |
| When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| Like the bee, we should make our industry our AMUSEMENT. | Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright |
| People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the AMUSEMENT of the company. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. | Pearl S. Buck | 1892-1973, American Novelist |
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| The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking. | Phaedrus | c.1-?, Macedonian Inventor and Writer |
| Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. | Plato | BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher |
| A marriage is no AMUSEMENT but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. | Queen Victoria | 1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain |
| The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. | Robert C. Savage | |
| Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. | Robert M. Hutchins | 1899-1977, American University President |
| A am a great friend of public AMUSEMENTs, they keep people from vice. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Fly fishing may be a very pleasant AMUSEMENT; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then AMUSEMENT will dissipate the remains of it. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| I am a great friend to public AMUSEMENTs, for they keep the people from vice. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
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| A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own AMUSEMENT; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful AMUSEMENTs. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. | Shirley Maclaine | 1934-, American Actress |
| The real character of a man is found out by his AMUSEMENTs. | Sir Joshua Reynolds | 1723-1792, British Artist, Critic |
