Amusing Quotes

• I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

  David Bailey

  Girl, Witty, Fashion

  1990 In The Independent, 5 Nov.

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• It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

  Seneca the Younger

  Encouragement, Choices, Easy

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• Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

  Aesop

  Life, Trust, Wisdom

  Aesop, Joseph Jacobs (2004). “Best loved fables of Aesop”

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• I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Pro Life, Abortion

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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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• What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

  Roger Sessions

  Profound, Levels, Lasts

  Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press

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• Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Know How, Knows

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• Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sports, Honesty, Integrity

  Oceana ch. 5 (1886)

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• There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

  Mario Cuomo

  Political, World, Politics

  "The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Republicans". Book by Martin Higgin, p. 131, 2006.

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• Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

  Thomas Fuller

  Confidence, Military, Ironic

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• A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Girl, Home

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• I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracy, Enjoy, Idiotic

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.168, Vintage

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• I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Life

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fake People, Echoes, Coquette

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• I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

  Paul Feig

  People, Hey, Weirdness

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Humor, Cat

  Essais bk. 2, ch. 12 (1580)

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• At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Firsts, Good Mood

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• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Despair, Boring, Work Effort

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• What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Humor, Political

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• One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Boredom, Boring, Bores

  "My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings".

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• A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

  Immanuel Kant

  Exercise, Men, Two

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• A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Funny, Women

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• The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common than you'd think, is someone you want to avoid.

  An Na

  Letting Go, Falling In Love, Thinking

  "Who's Anna Kendrick dating? 2015 boyfriend hunt" by NationalLedger.com, January 8, 2015.

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• If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.

  Rosellen Brown

  Wise, Book, Paris

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