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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON AMUSEMENT
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
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.
Honore De Balzac (1799-1850, French novelist)
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
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 (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Cards were at first for benefits designed: sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
David Garrick (1717-1779, British actor, playwright, theater manager)
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937, American journalist, author)
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
George MacDonald (1824-1905, Scottish novelist)
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
Phaedrus (c.1-?, Macedonian inventor and writer)
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768, British author)
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