Quotes About Amusement

My duty to myself is to amuse myself terrifically.

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- happiness. He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.

Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun?

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.

She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.

What ho!' I said. 'What ho!' said Motty. 'What ho! What ho!' 'What ho! What ho! What ho!' After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-who-like-to-be-left-alone- to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts.

His was a simple mind, able to amuse itself with simple things.

hoping that this was some jolly practical joke and that the real chap would shortly jump out from behind a chair and say "Boo!

The man was goggling. His entire map was suffused with a rich blush. He looked like the Soul's Awakening done in pink.

She had more curves than a scenic railway

Are we all illusions? Brief shadows thrown on a white wall for the shallow amusement of bored gods? Is this all?

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.

And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Can't you... I don't. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

The elements of instruction . . . should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion; for a freeman should be a freeman too in the acquisition of knowledge . . . . Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child (536).

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child

There's no fear when you're having fun.

Charbonneau was an interesting, amusing and provocative man and I like to think he brought out the best in me, also. Even two minutes in his company provided some comment or observation that would make me laugh or make me violently disagree with him and so those two minutes of my day were well spent as a consequence.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

You can interact with a refrigerator: open the door and the light inside turns on. Close the door and the little light goes off. But how many people do you see standing in front of their refrigerators, opening and closing the doors, laughing?