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Quotes About Amusement

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.
~ Louisa May Alcott
When the sun peeped into the girl's room early next morning, to promise them a fine day, he saw a comical sight... This funny spectacle appeared to amuse the sun, for he burst out with such radiance that Jo woke up, and roused all her sisters by a hearty laugh at Amy's ornament.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Katy don't amoose me; and I must be amoosed, 'cause I 'm fwactious; mamma said I was!" sobbed Maud, evidently laboring under the delusion that fractiousness was some interesting malady.
~ Louisa May Alcott
He laughed a great deal and enjoyed the speculation he caused.
~ Ron Chernow
When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Sh?nagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that
~ Ruth Ozeki
Caspian burst into gales of laughter. "I suppose you were
~ Ruth Rendell
Those who bore others are the plebians, the mass, the endless train of humanity in general. Those who bore themselves are the elect, the nobility; and how strange it is that those who don't bore themselves usually bore others, while those who do bore themselves amuse others. The people who do not bore themselves are generally those who are busy in the world in one way or another, but that is just why they are the most boring, the most insufferable, of all.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
~ S.J. Perelman
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.
~ Michael Jackson
Success doesn't bring happiness. Only material stuff like money, cars and iPods can do that. And I've already got all that. So I have to find other ways to amuse myself.
~ Murdoc Niccals
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
~ Joseph Addison
Good-humor is always a success.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
La drept vorbind, singurii inÈ™i în stare s? se plictiseasc? pe lumea aceasta È™i care se c?l?toresc în lumea de apoi cu speranÈ›a c? vor avea parte de mai multe distracÈ›ii sunt zevzecii.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
~ Alexandre Dumas père
Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You must be fucking joking.
~ Joe Abercrombie
We are here for our amusement.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Saunders laughed, a short, breathless sound that did not quite convey amusement, and did the reasonable thing: looked back at his paper.
~ Joe Hill
minor magics meant to amuse and entertain.
~ Joey W. Hill
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
~ Aristotle
I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.
~ Bryant Gumbel
The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?
~ Evalyn Walsh McLean
I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.
~ Bruce Willis