Quotes about Amusement

You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

The trouble with life in America today is not that we work too much but that our free time is too much engaged in play and amusement so that too little of it is left for the kind of leisure activities that really are the most profitable part of human life.

A holiday would be a poor thing indeed without a great deal of game playing!

Are we having fun yet

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

She was looking at his face; it was the face she had known...There was no sign of tragedy, no bitterness, no tension—only the radiant mockery, matured and stressed, the look of dangerously unpredictable amusement, and the great, guiltless serenity of spirit.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.