“As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.” ThinkingYearsLongHomeRunningNightGamesWinningInterestSavingOccupationPerpetualLong RunsAmusementAmusingImpartUnbecoming Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.” MenLongSportsWearyAmusement Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .” WellsLongStillsMonthsSevenProductionsHeavyComplicatedAmusementAmusingPremieresSeven Months Author:Ingmar Bergman
“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.” LoveLongHandsTearsParticularFlowerLoversBedStonesIndiaFilledEmbracePlantPreparedRaisedFleshShouldersServantSoilPotThickTendernessIdleSighAmusementCarpetMoonlightTemperatureFeverSilkKnotsSparkleBalconiesPrecious StonesBoudoir Author:Gustave Flaubert