A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

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

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