Amusing Quotes - Page 8

• What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

  Louis L'Amour

  Today, Tomorrow, Accepted

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• If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Gentleman, Ordinary

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• An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

  Anatoly Karpov

  Chess, Faces, Facts

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• The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Doe, Attractive, Concern

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.69, Vintage

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• ... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sleep, Littles, Doe

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.

  Albert Einstein

  Garden, Ideas, Light

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• I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Government, Democracy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.8, Vintage

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• Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

  E. V. Lucas

  Nature, Liars, Hands

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• Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rights, Two Nations, History

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.28, University of Georgia Press

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• They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Sight, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.86, Dial Press

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• It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Two Nations, Discovery, Agreement

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• There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, Interesting, Interest

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3675, Delphi Classics

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• No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wise, War, Home

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Years, Dies

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

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• I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Humorous, Adventure

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dream, Winter, Italian

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Politics, Administration, Would Be

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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• Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Tables, Matter, Table Manners

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mean, Names, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.130, Anchor

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• To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

  Gelett Burgess

  Fun, Self, Games

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

  Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

  Heavy Heart, Way, Hearted

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• Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Health, Want, Courses

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• Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she considered herself to be a virgin. Her intent had been to present herself as such when she found "Mr. Right."

  Jess C Scott

  Mr Right, Guy, Lust

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• I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

  Anna Quindlen

  America, Long, Care

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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