You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
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