Amusements

Famous quotes containing the word amusements:

“Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)