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

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

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
Donald Knuth

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

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

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

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
Theodor Geisel