“Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
“You make 'em, I amuse 'em.”
Dr. Seuss
“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history”
Chamfort
“We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, ... And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' ”
Ingmar Bergman
“The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused”
“I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.”
Benjamin Franklin
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