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To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
When I go to places, I love going to all those kind of amusement parks and kind of cheesy things to do.
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.
I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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.
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
The shopping centres that have come up in Noida are amazing. There are amusement parks and other good family outing spots.
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
I certainly did work at an amusement park. In 1985. Wow - I'm in denial about the year. I was in college, and I had no skills.
Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's why I don't think it will date.
Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
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.
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
We inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed.
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.