Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
Quotes about amusement (16 Quotes)
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge.
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose....
I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.
I love this boardwalk, even if it is one of the 'board-less' varieties. Actually, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk refers to both the seaside amusement park and the concrete path that runs through it. Here, find everything from a classic wooden roller coaster, a 1911 carousel, arcade and video games and an extra-wide beach with volleyball nets to free concerts, great surfing and windsurfing and a half-mile-long pier lined with seafood restaurants. Coastal nirvana.
A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
It Was wisely known in New York, but never acknowledged, that Americans want to get away from amusement even more I quickly than they wont to get to it.
The Kemah Boardwalk draws 4 million visitors a year to this once-sleepy town on Galveston Bay near Houston. In addition to showcasing overpriced, tourist-oriented restaurants, the boardwalk also includes amusement rides, shops, an unpredictably programmed water-jet fountain (a definite kid favorite), and a surprisingly nice boutique hotel called the Boardwalk Inn.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
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.