Amusement

(447 votes)   The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(373 votes)   Amusement to an observing mind is study.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(326 votes)   Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(275 votes)   The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(272 votes)   Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

David Garrick
1717-1779, British Actor, Playwright, Theater Manager

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