1.
Jean Iris Murdoch -
“The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.”
2.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -
“When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?”
3.
Beverly Jones -
“Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.”
4.
Dr. Samuel Johnson -
“I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.”
5.
Dr. Samuel Johnson -
“On Sir Joshua Reynolds’s observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.”
6.
Wilhelm von Humboldt -
“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”
7.
Mahatma Gandhi -
“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
8.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
“If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.”
9.
Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel -
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
10.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances ... the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.”
11.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.”
12.
Queen Victoria -
“We are not amused.”
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