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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. Marguerite Gardiner

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Evelyn Waugh

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

Lev Yilmaz

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

Frederic William Farrar

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

E. W. Howe

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Al Smith

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

I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'

Sharon Kay Penman

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Helen Gurley Brown

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Blaise Pascal

I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.

Tyler Perry

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.

Adrian Edmondson

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Helmut Newton

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

George Henry Lewes

Small things amuse small minds.

Doris Lessing

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Marguerite Gardiner

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.

Marc Davis

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Dr. Seuss

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

Vaughn Monroe

'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

Edmund White

Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends.

Lauren Santo Domingo

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

Hillary Clinton

Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.

Elliott Abrams

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.

Paul Rand

I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.

Chelsea Handler

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

Peter Gallagher

She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

Louise Fletcher

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

Michelle Hunziker

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

Ken Thompson

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Joseph Howe

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

Allen Klein

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.

George Harrison

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.

Al Jourgensen

I like to amuse myself.

Lydia Millet

People who are obsessed amuse me.

Lydia Millet

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

Alec Baldwin