Entertain

Famous quotes containing the word entertain:

    “Th’ only way t’ entertain some folks is t’ listen t’ ‘em.”
    —Kin Hubbard (F. [Frank] Mckinney Hubbard)

    “I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
    —Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)

    “We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn a hundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)