Amused Quotes

• Life has a higher end, than to be amused

  William Ellery Channing

  Life, Inspire, Ends

  William Ellery CHANNING (1837). “An Address on Temperance, etc”, p.52

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• I amused myself playing with the journalists.

  Brigitte Boisselier

  Journalist

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• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Weed, Marijuana, Degrees

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• I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

  Elvis Costello

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

  Song: Red Shoes

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• Hellooo.” I held out my arm. “An amethyst woman with blue hair is telling you this.” She reached out and scraped her short nails over my arm. I snatched my arm back. “Ow.” Not body makeup.” She frowned and peered at the roots of my hair. “A good die-job or you’ve really got blue hair.” For now,” I said. “I’m half Drow.” She raised an eyebrow. Dark Elves.” Uh-huhhhh.” During the day I look normal, like you.” With an amused look she held up her arm, showing her dark, golden skin. “You’re Kenyan and Puerto Rican?

  Cheyenne McCray

  Jobs, Dark, Makeup

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• A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Funny, Cute, Smile

  Shirley Maclaine (2010). “Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation”, p.1, Bantam

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• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Wall, Writing, Years

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sweet, Time, Grandma

  "China: Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1972.

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• To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Happiness, Spring, Dignity

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• I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

  Julia Roberts

  Way, Causes, Temper

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• It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

  James Thurber

  Food, Wine, Thinking

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 1937

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• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Eye, Self, Soul

  "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897)

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• I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

  Josh Lieb

  Children, Hate, Piano

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• A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Honesty, Men, People

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 25 Mar. 1776)

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• I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you from having to give a straight answer." "Perhaps so," said the Queen with an amused smile. "'Mayhap' is a good word too," Alec suggested. "Also 'perchance,'" Izzy said. "I see nothing wrong with 'maybe'," said Simon. "A little modern, but the gist of the idea comes across.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Ideas, Giving

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as it snarls, “That’s radical!” Society has good reason to fear the radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of conservatives.

  Saul Alinsky

  Hurt, Justice, Tongue

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• I am looking for the fellowship of the burning heart--for men and women of all generations everywhere who love the Savior until adoration becomes the music of their soul until they don't have to be fooled with and entertained and amused. Jesus Christ is everything, all-in-all.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

  E. W. Howe

  Fall, People, Icy

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• They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

  Saint Augustine

  Devil, Fool, Firsts

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• Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Communication, Humor, Intelligent

  "Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography". Book by Wilfrid Meynell, 1903.

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• In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.

  Michael Crichton

  Hands, Boredom, Disease

  Michael Crichton (2000). “Timeline”

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• If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  Henry Ford

  Blessed, Eye, Goal

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• One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

  Scott Walker

  Class, Opponents, Middle

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• Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

  Simon Doonan

  Air, Knowing, People

  Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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