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Quotes About Amusement

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
~ Will Rogers
Get all the good laughs you can.
~ Will Rogers
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.
~ Will Rogers
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.
~ Will Rogers
Schadenfreude is so nutritious.
~ Will Self
The crowd at the ball gameis moved uniformlyby a spirit of uselessnesswhich delights them—
~ William Carlos Williams
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
~ William Davis
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.
~ William Davis
Fleming doubted all this but he listened anyway and thought with a kind of sardonic amusement that before the night was over life itself might grasp him by the scruff of the neck and jerk him out of the doldrums he seemed grounded in and into its swifter currents.
~ William Gay
All along the avenue, cotton candy stands, fun houses, and games of chance were tightly shuttered, like clowns without makeup.
~ William Hjortsberg
When a tree's leaves wave slightly or when you hear consistent creaking and groaning of limbs and there is no wind, chances are you are being laughed at by a tree. They may find your clothes ridiculous. Your hiking skills clumsy. Or your yodeling off-key. It is not cruel or teasing laughter. They are simply amused.
~ William Joyce
Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
~ David Mamet
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
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
We live in God's amusement park.
~ Dean Koontz
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."
~ Keegan-Michael Key
Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.
~ Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
~ Dorothy Parker
Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
~ Dick Gregory
Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.
~ Lou Diamond Phillips
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
~ Brian Eno
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
~ Henry Fielding
I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.
~ Condoleezza Rice