#musing

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time. ↗

— Edith Pargeter

#family #rivalry #family

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#devil #distracting #duty #home #idleness

I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#die #every #find #i #much

I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am. ↗

— Adam Levine

#funny #hot #funny

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#boring #considered #despair #everything #inclination

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ↗

— Voltaire

#art #consists #cures #disease #medicine

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. ↗

— Mae West

#another #broadway #courtroom #enjoyed #i

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 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