“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
“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 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
“I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.”
Elvis Costello
“Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.”
David Mamet
