Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous. . . I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England
If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours. " Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.
My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
. . . Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.
I look just like the girls next door. . . if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
I've told you before,” he said huskily. “I'll take you however I can get you. ” “Whatever. Don't think I don't know you're topping from the bottom. ” His mouth curved with unapologetic amusement.