#musing

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#history #love #love is #marriage #more

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#distinction #distinctions #i #make #much

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

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. ↗

— Moliere

#amusing #comedy #correct #duty #them

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

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#few #friends #had #honour #husband

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#amusing #another #been #delivery #i