52 Amusement Quotes for You to Enjoy

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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One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second. Robert Baden-Powell

Obedience Obey First Own Must He Put First Place His Scout Authority Duties Orders Place Second Desires Amusement

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. H. P. Lovecraft

You Dog Will Before Pants Eye Bored Somewhat Throw Cat He Stick Polite Same Bring Amusement

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. Kurt Vonnegut

Good Me Writing Power Own Tell Kindly Physical Physical Sciences My Own Rather Writer Studied Wrote Read Sciences How Very Than Order Either Really English Lucky Professor Awful Amusement

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium. Gina Barreca

Woman Age Temple Park Body Amusement

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. George MacDonald

You Water Live Then Mud Inch Deep Amusement

When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew up with. I wanted a foolproof exemption from pain and boredom. I wanted a life of constant amusement and leisure. Josh Tillman

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I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. Joyce Carol Oates

Book Judge Reading Steady Gives Also Read Nonfiction Lot Reviewing Literature Which Awards Assignment Enlightenment Amusement

What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park. Andrew Pyper

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