#amusements

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! ↗

— Sydney Smith

#england #pity #religion #vice

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

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

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

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#life #tolerable #would

This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#entertainment #men #toys #women #men

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#character #found #his #man #out

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

#away #direction #former #had #human