AMUSEMENT

Related Subjects: Cards and Card Playing, Dancing, Fun, Gambling, Holiday, Merriment, Pleasure, Sport, Stage

1. Encourage innocent amusement.—ADDISON

2. If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.—BALZAC

3. Certain bounds must be observed in our amusements, and we must be careful not to carry things too far and, swept away by our passions, lapse into shameful excess.—CICERO, De Officiis

4. Amusement, to an observing mind, is study.—DISRAELI

5. If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.—EMERSON, Essays

6. I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life

7. No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.—SAMUEL JOHNSON

8. You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water, an inch deep, and then the mud!GEORGE MACDONALD

9. To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.—PASCAL

10. Amusement allures and deceives us, and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave.—PASCAL

11. Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.—POPE, Thoughts on Various Subjects

12. The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.—SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS

13. It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

14. What revels are in hand? Is there no play
    To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream

15. We are not amused.—QUEEN VICTORIA

16. O ye Lorenzos of our age! who deem One moment unamus'd, a misery.—EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts