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#amusement

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #amusement




Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.


David Mamet


#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.


Queen Victoria


#amusement #generally #marriage #sad #solemn

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#anglo-saxon #any #death #fund #greater

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.


Avery Brundage


#education #eyes #fixed #game #goal

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


#become #being #came #ceased #community

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself


Aristotle


#happiness #life

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.


Karl Rove


#amusement #creates #existence #i #know

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.


Jane Austen


#commentary #humor #snark #humor

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.


Joseph Addison


#appears #every #lost #man #moment

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.


Mahatma Gandhi


#amusement #applied #idle #instrument #most






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