Definition of Amusement

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Definition of Amusement
	Amusement Deep thought; muse. The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion. Related Definitions: Amused, Being, Deep, Diversion, Excitement, Muse, Of, Pleasurable, State, That, The, Thought, Which

Amusement Quotations

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

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
Dolly Parton

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll

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

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph Addison

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
Brian Eno

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
David Mamet

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
Johnny Rotten

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

Amusement Translations

amusement in Afrikaans is vermaak
amusement in Dutch is amusement, vermaak
amusement in Portuguese is divertimento

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