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25 quotesWe never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Humor
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.
Beauty
Helen Gurley Brown
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Age and Aging
Pearl S. Buck
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Amusement to an observing mind is study.
Amusement
Benjamin Disraeli
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We live in what virtually amounts to a museum -- which does not happen to a lot of people.
Royalty
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Amusement
David Garrick
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Change
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
Work
Oliver Goldsmith
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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
Arts and Artists
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
Museums and Galleries
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Amusement
Edgar Watson Howe
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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
Museums and Galleries
Henry James
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Entertainment
Samuel Johnson
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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Humor
Samuel Johnson
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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
Amusement
George Macdonald
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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Humor
Shirley Maclaine
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Churches
L. L. Nash
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
Pleasure
Blaise Pascal
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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Character
Sir Joshua Reynolds
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I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
Audiences
John Lydon Rotten
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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Education
Robert C. Savage
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Amusement
George Bernard Shaw
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Literature
Susan Sontag
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Marriage
Queen Victoria
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
Friends and Friendship
Evelyn Waugh
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun