Amusement Quotes - Page 7

• To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.

  James Atlas

  Wilson, Educated, Amused

  1985 Of Edmund Wilson. In the New York Times, 28 Jul, reviewing David Castronovo Edmund Wilson (1984).

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• The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.

  Oswald Spengler

  Eye, Men, Suffering

  Oswald Spengler (1967). "Aforismos"

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• I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and Westworld, where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me.

  Kimberly Elise

  Girl, Dad, Guy

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• Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

  Samuel Johnson

  Visionaries, Planning, Calm

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.226, Yale University Press

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• Opiniones: pensamientos de los hombres sobre grandes temas. Gustos: sus pensamientos sobre los pequeños temas: vestimenta, comportamiento, diversiones, adornos.

  George Eliot

  Men, Dresses, Taste

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• La estupidez tiene su sublime al igual que el genio, y quien lleva esa cualidad hasta el absurdo la ha alcanzado; lo cual es siempre una fuente de diversión para las personas sensatas.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  People, Stupidity, Sublime

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• ... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion.

  Tormenta Jameson

  Arte, Pasión, Pensamiento

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.240, A&C Black

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• Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Intellectual, Demand, Purses

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Si una película triunfa, hacen lo más obvio, ¿no? Hacen un parque de atracciones con ella. ... La conexión es obvia. Te dices: "¡Caray, es igual que la película! Sólo que la película tenía un argumento y personajes, y aquello era un poco más como una montaña rusa".

  Brian Regan

  Divertido, Carácter, Hombres

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• It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Children, School, Sunday

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.572, 1895.

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• Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Discipline, Faithful, Reign

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). "Pensamientos para la vida cotidiana de las palabras habladas y escritas de Maltbie Davenport Babcock".

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• I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Appreciation, Dancing, Wish

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1887). “Live Coals”

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• Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.

  Rose Macaulay

  Christmas, Lying, Years

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• Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Reading, Men, Wells

  Henry Ward Beecher William Drysdale (1887). "Proverbios del Púlpito de Plymouth"

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• Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Reading, People, Mind

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• Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Flower, Corn, Serious

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• Trabajamos en 'Fanny y Alexander' durante siete meses y fue una producción divertida. Aun así, era muy larga y pesada y terriblemente complicada... Y cuando terminó el estreno y todo salió bien, pensé: 'Ya está'...".

  Ingmar Bergman

  Seven Months, Long, Complicated

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• In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Fall, May, Limits

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 29, 1922.

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• What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Thinking, Mirrors

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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• Los expertos en tiro con arco sólo tensan su arco cuando se disponen a utilizarlo; cuando no lo necesitan, lo dejan sin tensar, pues de lo contrario quedaría inservible cuando llegara el momento de utilizarlo. Lo mismo ocurre con el hombre. Si se dedicara incesantemente a una aburrida ronda de negocios, sin romper la monotonía con alegres diversiones, caería imperceptiblemente en la idiotez, o sería golpeado por la parálisis...

  Heródoto

  Business, Fall, Men

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• People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, Shopping, Luxury

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.370, Cambridge University Press

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• ¿Te apetece divertirte hoy en día? Entonces juega un poco al juego de ganarse la vida. Nunca hubo nada igual. Hazlo con templanza, sin embargo, y no sudes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Games, Play, Sweat

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• El número de los que viven sin el ardor de la investigación es muy pequeño, aunque muchos se contentan con diversiones baratas y malgastan sus vidas en investigaciones sin importancia.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Numbers, Inquiry

  Samuel Johnson, William P. Page (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.40

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• Si alguna vez tuviera que subirme a una atracción de un parque de atracciones, probablemente no lo haría; ¡no soy una persona muy aventurera!

  Tammin Sursok

  Parks, Adventurous, Persons

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

  David Levithan

  Play, Differences, My Best Friend

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