Amusement Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Amusement.
Top Quotes
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“Play up, play up, and play the game.”
“The inhabitants have a right to take their amusements in a lawful way.”
“I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.”
“The ascetic Gotama … avoids watching dancing, singing, music and shows.”
“We cry for mercy to the next amusement,
The next amusement mortgages our fields.”
“Wikipedia: Amusement”
“So good things may be abused, and that which was first invented to refresh men's weary spirits.”
“Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer.”
“Any pleasure which takes and keeps the heart from God is sinful, and unless forsaken, will be fatal to the soul.”
“Amusements are to religion like breezes of air to the flame; gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out.”
“Where is our usual manager of mirth?
What revels are in hand? Is there no play,
To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?”
“It was an old, old, old, old lady,
And a boy who was half-past three;
And the way they played together
Was beautiful to see.”
“Hail, blest Confusion! here are met
All tongues, and times, and faces;
The Lancers flirt with Juliet,
The Brahmin talks of races.”
“If variety is sought in all the arts and amusements, such as archery and others, how much more should it be sought after in the art of love.”
“Persons without minds are like bad weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.”
“After a few days, Willie got tired of [the water-wheel] — and no blame to him, for it was no earthly use beyond amusement, and that which can only amuse can never amuse long.”
“Dancing, the theatre, society, card-playing, games of chance, horses, women, drinking, traveling, and so on … are not enough to ward off boredom where intellectual pleasures are rendered impossible by lack of intellectual needs.”
“In our bourgeois Western world total labor has vanquished leisure. Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture—and ourselves.”