#amusement

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#amusements #friend #great #keep #people

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. ↗

— James Madison

#any #apt #classes #fill #good

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death. ↗

— John Piper

#amusement #entertainment #excess #death

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#i #included #jokes #little #mysteries

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#art #creative #play #realization #sake

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#amusements #concerned #fail #forgetting #his

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#ball game #baseball #being #coasters #events

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#complain #conditions #deny #die #feel

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. ↗

— Voltaire

#any #dance #harm #let us #never

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