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He's our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin. (Quote by - Michael Parkinson)

A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves. (Quote by - Gary Shapiro)

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. (Quote by - Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland)

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it`s sort of both. Californians don`t have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times". Alex Kingston. (Quote by - Alex Kingston Quotes)

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. (Quote by - Thackeray )

Amusement - the happiness of those who cannot think. (Quote by - Pope Alexander)

Amusement is the waking sleep of labor. When it absorbs thought, patience, and strength that might have been seriously employed, it loses its distinctive character and becomes the task-master of idleness. (Quote by - Willmott Robert Eldgridge)

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us, and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave. (Quote by - Pascal Blaise)

Amusement to an observing mind is study. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

Amusingly, Clooney said in an interview that Alger Hiss was probably .. was wrong about 99 percent of them. (Quote by - George Clooney)

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked. (Quote by - Jane Austen)

And the most amusing thing is when they would start behaving as if this were the Super Bowl. (Quote by - Robert Thompson)

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)

As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. (Quote by - Jean Houston)

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing. (Quote by - Chamfort)

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods. (Quote by - Frankie Boyle)

Be amusing, never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)

Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not enslave the mind. (Quote by - Garrick David)

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed. (Quote by - Fuller )

Email to a friend Amusement to an observing mind is study. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

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