#amusement

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#amusement #generally #marriage #sad #solemn

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#door #happen #i #just #like

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#here #i #mine #you #your

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#amusement #flat #friendly #keeps #love

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. ↗

— George Bancroft

#characters #depend #enough #exciting #lives

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #entertainment #readers #reading #solitude

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about. ↗

— Karl Rove

#amusement #creates #existence #i #know

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked. ↗

— Jane Austen

#commentary #humor #snark #humor

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.... ↗

— Aristotle

#happy #life #virtue #life

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself ↗

— Aristotle

#happiness #life