Amusement Quotes - Page 2

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

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

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

We live in God's amusement park.

Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

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

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

I've told you before,” he said huskily. “I'll take you however I can get you.” “Whatever. Don't think I don't know you're topping from the bottom.” His mouth curved with unapologetic amusement.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.

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

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.

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

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.