The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

S. J. Perelman

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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Aristotle

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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Winston Churchill

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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Chinua Achebe

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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

C. A. Bartol

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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

Ted Turner

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I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Elvis Costello

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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

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

Gustave Flaubert

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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit

Lewis Carroll

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria

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I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

Carrie Underwood

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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

J. K. Rowling

Dreams Expected I Write Just

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Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Ellen G White

Devoted amusement Love pleasure

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Robert Browning

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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Leonard Cohen

Amused Amusement Because Friends

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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Affections Amusement Flat Friendly

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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

James Madison

Any Apt Classes Fill

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Nigeria is on fire, and the citizens are amused.

Dele Giwa

Nigeria Fire Amused Citizens

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I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

Alec Baldwin

I Think People Nothing

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine

A person Knows how To laugh Never ceased

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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

William Hazlitt

World Loves Forgive Honest truth

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Don’t give up or give in in the face of patronizing ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

Meryl Streep

Give up Ridicule Disdain Ignored

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The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

S. J. Perelman

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Aristotle

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Winston Churchill

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Chinua Achebe

Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

C. A. Bartol

Ted Turner

Elvis Costello

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

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

Gustave Flaubert

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit

Lewis Carroll

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

Carrie Underwood

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

J. K. Rowling

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Ellen G White

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Robert Browning

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Leonard Cohen

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

James Madison

Dele Giwa

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

Alec Baldwin

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

William Hazlitt

Don’t give up or give in in the face of patronizing ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

Meryl Streep

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