“I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.”
Elvis Costello
“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history”
Chamfort
“You make 'em, I amuse 'em.”
Dr. Seuss
“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”
“Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.”
David Mamet
“I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.”
Cliff Fadiman
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