Amusement Quotes - Page 15

• Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at me and shrugged. "Until then, it remains a source of my own amusement.

  Rachel Vincent

  Mouths, Doe, Destruction

  FaceBook post by Rachel Vincent from Sep 11, 2012

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• The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Ambition, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.431

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• If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.

  Joseph Paxton

  Knowledge, Science, Vegetables

  Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.2

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• ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Kindness, Entertainment

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Effort, Grows

  John Ruskin (1871). “Works. (Author's Ed.)”, p.59

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• I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

  Kristin Cashore

  Bored, Neighbor, Should

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• She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

  Edith Wharton

  Two, Together, Should

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1608, Delphi Classics

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• Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

  Graeme Simsion

  Creating, Accustomed

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Charles Dickens “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”

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• Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Years, House, Parks

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

  Ada Leverson

  Children, Pie, Giving

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• I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.

  Margery Fish

  Cousin, Husband, Garden

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• The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Drama, Character, Men

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.298, A&C Black

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• We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Cuckoos

  Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18

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• Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

  George Bancroft

  Character, Joy, Stories

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.64

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• We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields

  Edward Young

  Fields, Next, Cry

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.25

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• Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Selfish

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• Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

  Adam Smith

  Money, Men, Rich Or Poor

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, People, Looks

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• I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Men, Knowing

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• I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Eye, Arrows

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• In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Past, Night

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

  Richard Cobden

  Light, Law, People

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• Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York Times, the British monarchy now exists primarily 'for our amusement'. But as long as people find it amusing, and want to be amused by it, they will be happy to see it undermined but uneager to kill it off.

  David Cannadine

  New York, Long, People

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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• The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny," he whispered hoarsely, burying his face in her fragrant hair. "Jenny, I love you." She melted against him, molding her body to the rigid contours of his, offering her lips up for his fierce, devouring kiss, then she took his face between both her hands. Leaning back slightly against his arm, her melting blue eyes gazing deeply into his, his wife replied in a shaky voice, "I think, my lord, I love you more.

  Judith McNaught

  Crush, Love You, Eye

  Judith McNaught (1991). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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