There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse
Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
Small things amuse small minds.
I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in!
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
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.
On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.
And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.
I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99. 5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.