#musing

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#funny #funny

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#friends #good #good friends #i #i can

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. ↗

— David Bailey

#cared #fashion #i #liked #little

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#history #love #love is #marriage #more

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#distinction #distinctions #i #make #much

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#change #ideas #nothing #perfectly #total

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#confess #democracy #enjoy #hence #i

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. ↗

— Moliere

#amusing #comedy #correct #duty #them

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#cat #her #herself #i #knows