Amusement Quotes

• Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Retirement
  • Amusement
  • Tombs

• And usually the philosopher philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Order
  • Philosopher
  • Pastime

• I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.

  

  George Washington
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Peace

• With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Life
  • Sky
  • Blinded

• I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your alarms. For my personal amusement, I've labeled them 3 a.m. for 'ridiculously early,' 3:30 is just 'early,' and 4 is 'slacker.'

  

  Savannah Guthrie
  • Different
  • inspirational
  • Alarms

• The only autograph I ever got, which I do not have anymore, was Matthew Fox when he was on 'Party Of Five.' I was in high school, and he came to our local amusement park, and I stood in line and got an autograph.

  

  Riki Lindhome
  • School
  • Amusement
  • Matthew

• In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

  

  Will Self
  • Age
  • Film
  • Honour

• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Meet
  • Ship
  • Seamen

• Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Amusement
  • Excessive
  • Allures

• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  

  George Eliot
  • Purpose
  • Gentlemen
  • Probabilities

• You must dream your life with great care. Instead of living it as merely an amusement.

  

  Arthur Cravan
  • Dream
  • Care
  • Amusement

• I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Devil
  • Week
  • Danger

• To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Happiness
  • Recreation
  • Amusement

• The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Rest
  • Illness

• I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Reality
  • Amusement
  • Edification

• At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • World
  • Laughing
  • Misanthropic

• One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Amusement
  • Secures

• I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Girl
  • Amusement

• Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.

  

  Mortimer Adler
  • Giving
  • Needs
  • Source

• A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

  

  Gary Shapiro
  • Dance
  • Amusement
  • Park

• This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.

  

  James Butler Hickok
  • Sympathy
  • Circus
  • Amusement

• Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

  

  George Washington
  • Wish
  • Pleasure
  • Innocent

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