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)