Amuse Quotes

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Small things amuse small minds.

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.