Top Amusement Quotes
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Max Beckmann
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
Beverly Jones
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
John Masefield
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
Lewis Tappan
Beverly Jones 
Frederick Marryat 
John Masefield 
John C. Reilly 
Gilbert Hernandez 
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Lewis Carroll 
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Max Beckmann 
63% of people like this quote
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
58% of people like this quote
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
Beverly Jones
56% of people like this quote
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
John Masefield
54% of people like this quote
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
Lewis Tappan
54% of people like this quote
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll
54% of people like this quote
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
53% of people like this quote
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
George MacDonald
53% of people like this quote
Popular Amusement Authors
Mohandas GandhiJoseph AddisonBrian EnoLogan P. SmithLewis CarrollGeorge MacDonaldBruce SterlingArmistead MaupinAlan Dean FosterDorothy L. SayersDolly PartonMax BeckmannLewis TappanJohnny Rotten
Queen VictoriaGeorge BancroftDavid MametJohn MasefieldOtis RushGilbert HernandezJohn C. ReillyAvery BrundageEdmund S. MuskieDavid StoreyMax ErnstBeverly JonesFrederick Marryat
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