Quotes About Amusement

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

Ah, that's because you don't know what it's like to have faith. You've no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when you do believe. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. It makes life so jolly, you know.

I think more people should include silliness as part of their daily routines.

were in need of bodywork. It had always amused

His principal amusement was shooting with a pistol. The walls of his room were riddled with bullets, and were as full of holes as a honeycomb. A rich collection of pistols was the only luxury in the humble cottage where he lived. The skill which he had acquired with his favorite weapon was simply incredible: and if he had offered to shoot a pear off somebody's forage-cap, not a man in our regiment would have hesitated to place the object upon his head.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

I do not often laugh, sir," answered the unknown. "As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please.

Positive means feeling enjoyment, suspense, amusement, and the satisfaction of what psychologists call belief affirmation—stories turning out as readers believe they should. That requires more than just a happy ending. It means affirming readers' beliefs and validating their morals.

And if it can't be fun, what's the point?

I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that`s all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

Miss Trudie said, "Well, like my momma used to say, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. This takes the cake.

Mrs. Pollifax wondered why, when she was being her most serious, people found her so amusing.

Death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other single subject.

I'm doing you a favor," replied the colonel with a smile of his own. "Just remember what Patton said: Pressure makes diamonds." "Well, yeah," said the major in amusement. "If you're a lump of coal. If you're a human being, that same pressure turns you into splatter. Like a bug on a windshield.

And most important to her, he possessed a great sense of humor,

Bulging biceps?" she repeated with a broad grin. "Wow. Your imagination is even more potent than I thought.

We had been trying for a hint of amusement, but were failing miserably. Apparently, dread wasn't an easy emotion to displace

It is fun to have fun but you have to know how.

Fun is good

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"