Quotes About Amusement

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

kad je ve? cirkus, neka svijet i vidi cirkus!

Oh, this has got to be something humorus.

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

Mais, supposé, comme il est vrai, que les exercices de la piété souffrent des intervelles et que les hommes aient besoin de divertissement, je soutiens qu'on ne leur en peut trouver un qui soit plus innocent que la comédie.

Nous avons été jusqu'ici dans un jeûne effroyable de divertissements.

Though Leibniz may have had special reasons for considering base two, neither this base nor any other had until recently been seriously considered as a substitute for base ten. In fact, aside from incidental uses of other bases in higher mathematics to facilitate an occasional proof, the subject of bases other than ten was regarded until recently as an intellectual amusement.

Laughter is an orgasm of awareness.

Oh yeah, that's the one who kept watching me as if she was waiting for me to grow fangs and try to eat her. I couldn't help it—I used my claws to scratch my nose. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Choices, we tell ourselves we have choices. So foolish are mortals. An amusement to the Fates.

Reía como si yo acabara de decir algo increíblemente inteligente que la hacía burbujear de alegría.

Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.

For is not a Book the most reliable of Companions--and generally among the most stimulating as well? No need to worry about amusing or pleasing or making a good impression on a Book, when its only purpose is to entertain and, perhaps, instruct. And if it should fail in that purpose, one can merely return it to its shelf, without so much as a by-your-leave and no occasion for anxiety about its wounded Pride, either.

All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference.

Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference.

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

I become facetious when perplexed. Right now I am perplex'd in the extreme.

Hahaahhaahaaahhaaahahaahaahaa!

Sportsman's Hall offered four sporting events: rat killing by a weasel, rat killing by a dog, rat killing by a man, and dogfighting.

The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.

La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l'on n'a pas ri.

For the rest, he was large and good-natured, and had a habit of amusing himself with occasional spells of knitting.

But Finbarr smiled differently, not out of amusement, but happiness. As if he liked the world and enjoyed being in it.