Quotes about Amusement
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.
- Thomas Jefferson
The provocation in her eyes increased his amusement—he had not supposed she would waste her powder on such small game; but perhaps she was only keeping her hand in; or perhaps a girl of her type had no conversation but of the personal kind. At any rate, she was amazingly pretty, and he had asked her to tea and must live up to his obligations.
- Edith Wharton
It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.
- Edith Wharton
The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.
- Brigham Young
My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.
- Dean Jones
sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns.
- Ravi Zacharias
What the hell are you getting so upset about? he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. I thought you didn't believe in God. I don't, she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.
- Joseph Heller
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
- Walt Disney
People will put up with being terrified but no one will tolerate being bored.
- James Kennedy
Humor is man's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain