(84 quotes found)
“The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.”
Aristotle
“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
“tearing oneself apart for the amusement of the audience.”
Sean Penn
“Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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”
“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.”
“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history”
Chamfort
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”
Winston Churchill
