#muse

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#fall #icy #only #pavement #people

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

#amuses #fancy #found #history #improves

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

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. ↗

— Paul Allen

#best #could #exhibits #feeling #give

I guess my husband is a muse as well. ↗

— Tori Amos

#husband #i #muse #well

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#american #chance #go #got #helped

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#conqueror #creates #every #high #illustrious

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

— Habib Bourguiba

#cease #happy #himself #laugh #never