Amusements Quotes

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Tolerable

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire

Two, Dance, Read

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Human, Spring

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Friend, Keep

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

Good, Reading, Fill

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Joshua Reynolds

Character, Real, Found

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Sydney Smith

Religion, England, Pity

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.
Christopher Dawson

Work, Good, Men

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
Isaac D'Israeli

Life, Him, Themselves

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
Evelyn Underhill

Husband, Tired, Often

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