102 Quotes About Amusement

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

I can tell stories that will freeze the blood in your veins.

...but I must say there’s nothing amuses me like a little devilry now and then. Life would be dreadfully monotonous without it.

Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.

Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.