#amuse

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#amusement #anymore #certainty #convictions #destiny

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. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#comics #doing #experiences #grew #liked

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#fall #icy #only #pavement #people

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

#amuses #fancy #found #history #improves

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#education #expert #horizons #inflame #intellects

You live but once; you might as well be amusing. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#carpe-diem #humor #life #humor

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ↗

— Henry Adams

#amuses #applying #carries #everyone #himself

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused. ↗

— Habib Bourguiba

#cease #happy #himself #laugh #never

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. ↗