Amusement

12 quotes.

• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  E.E. Cummings

• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

• Amusement to an observing mind is study.

  Benjamin Disraeli

• Life is worth living, but only if we avoid the amusements of grown-up people.

  Robert Lynd

• Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

  George Bernard Shaw

• The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

  Phaedrus

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

  Ed Howe

• The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

  Joshua Reynolds

• True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

  Humboldt

• When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

  Michel de Montaigne

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

  George MacDonald

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