#amuse

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#education #expert #horizons #inflame #intellects

You live but once; you might as well be amusing. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#carpe-diem #humor #life #humor

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ↗

— Henry Adams

#amuses #applying #carries #everyone #himself

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused. ↗

— Habib Bourguiba

#cease #happy #himself #laugh #never

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. ↗

— Robert Browning

#before #learns #old #perhaps #rather

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#amusement #because #friends #i #know

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#disgusted #i #now #try #used

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#after #amusement #areas #barrier #disaster

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#again #amuse #back #because #been

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons. ↗

— Hope Emerson

#amuse #around #bit #blues #had