#amusing

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#funny #humor #funny

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#boring #considered #despair #everything #inclination

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ↗

— Voltaire

#art #consists #cures #disease #medicine

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. ↗

— Orson Welles

#because #class #counted #criminals #distinction

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. ↗

— Mae West

#another #broadway #courtroom #enjoyed #i

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#funny #funny

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#friends #good #good friends #i #i can

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#change #ideas #nothing #perfectly #total

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#confess #democracy #enjoy #hence #i

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#cat #her #herself #i #knows