Amusement Quotes - Page 9

• In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ambition, Mind, Fiction

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “The Works”, p.199

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Idols, Gentleman, Quality

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.48, e-artnow

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

  Frank Zappa

  Class, Care, Remember

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational.

  James Branch Cabell

  Heaven, Secret, World

  James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

  Franz Karl Achard

  Historical, Mind, Connections

  4 Copy quote

• A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

  James Carlos Blake

  Blessed, Men, Laughing

  James Carlos Blake (2010). “Handsome Harry: A Novel”, p.80, Zondervan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise.

  Jan Struther

  War, Up Early, Civilization

  "Mrs. Miniver".

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, People, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.462, Courier Corporation

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mean, Winning, Gambling

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.727, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Illness, Retiring

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.130, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

  William Howard Taft

  Baseball, Games, Clean

  6 Copy quote

• I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Men, People

  11 Copy quote

• We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Mad, World

  23 Copy quote

• I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

  Burgess Meredith

  Paradox

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I were invisible I'd go to the amusement park~

  Yunho

  Invisible, Ifs

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  Girl, Morning, Children

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.119

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote "The Rose," and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

  Amanda McBroom

  Writing, Ideas, Rose

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!

  Roman Coppola

  Design, Creative, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

  Stephanie Klein

  Love Is, Way, Parks

  "Moose: A Memoir". Book by Stephanie Klein, www.today.com. 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty Orientalism which had insidiously affected every channel of expression...The fact that these influences are all traceable to one racial source [Judaism] is something to be reckoned with...Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are sapping the moral stamina of the people.

  Henry Ford

  Country, Expression, Ideas

  11 Copy quote

• One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

  David Levithan

  Play, Differences, My Best Friend

  4 Copy quote

• If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

  Tammin Sursok

  Parks, Adventurous, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source