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• I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Vices, Entertainment

  "The Sayings of Doctor Johnson".

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• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

  John Masefield

  Men, Poetry, Community

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• Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Thinking, Pleasure

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• The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.

  Bill Hicks

  Life, Fun, Powerful

  "Revelations". 1993.

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• By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Games, Idlers, Nonsense

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• A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

  Gary Shapiro

  Dance, Parks, Amusement Parks

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• To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, People, Parks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Rely Upon, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

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• Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Sports, Men, Long

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• At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Sight, Laughing

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• A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

  Madame Roland

  Mind, Killing, Satire

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• If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Believe, Ifs

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• The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Men, Lazy Man, Play

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• Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love Life, Giving, Safe

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• The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Lying, Stories

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

  Madame de Stael

  Lying, Differences, Different

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• Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Work, Bees, Should

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• The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sex, Passion, Knowledge

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.375

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• I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

  Vanna Bonta

  Barbie Dolls, Eternity, Barbie

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

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• About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  California, Alex, Cynicism

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

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• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Men, Careers

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Running, Home, Winning

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.6938, Delphi Classics

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intellectual, Bait

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

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• Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Would Be, Rebellious

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