Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. (Quote by - Chamfort)

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make. (Quote by - Yahoo Serious)

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)

My parents are Irish, so there would be music, jokes, stories, tall tales and a musicality in it. We all tried to outdo each other, and my parents seemed to be reasonably amused by this. I don`t think they thought anybody would make a career out of it. Th... Colm Feore. (Quote by - Colm Feore Quotes)

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. (Quote by - Jane Austen)

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters (Quote by - not so much above the clatter as part of it. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. (Quote by - Robert Browning)

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan. (Quote by - Judith Regan Quotes)

Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis Hopper: part CEO, part unelected president. He gets the best line in the film when a frowning apparatchik asks if there is any trouble. In a world where the dead have returned to life, .. the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. (Quote by - Dennis Hopper)

Scientists say because of global warming they expect the world's oceans to rise four and a half feet. The scientists say this can mean only one thing - Gary Coleman is going to drown. (Quote by - Conan OBrien)

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

Small things amuse small minds. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)

Some were greatly offended, some were terribly amused, but mostly they were shocked that he did it knowing we're coming up, .. How do you tell someone, especially a psychologist, who should know better, that he's making people uncomfortable?. (Quote by - Richard Hamilton)

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. (Quote by - Robert Penn Warren)

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. (Quote by - Karl Lagerfeld)

The finest amusements are the most pointless ones. (Quote by - Jacques Chardonne)

The gods too are fond of a joke. (Quote by - Aristotle)

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. (Quote by - Aristotle)

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. (Quote by - Emerson, Ralph Waldo)

The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)