AMUSEMENT

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.

Honoré de Balzac

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

Benjamin Disraeli

You can’t live on amusement. It is the froth on water – an inch deep and then the mud.

George MacDonald

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

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

Joshua Reynolds

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a baby for its rattle.

C.H. Spurgeon