Famous Quotes & Sayings

Misty May

Just the history, the boardwalk, the food, the amusement park.

Terry Teachout

I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

Samuel Johnson

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

Will Rogers

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Walter Scott

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

Steve Millburg

I love this boardwalk, even if it is one of the 'board-less' varieties. Actually, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk refers to both the seaside amusement park and the concrete path that runs through it. Here, find everything from a classic wooden roller coaster, a 1911 carousel, arcade and video games and an extra-wide beach with volleyball nets to free concerts, great surfing and windsurfing and a half-mile-long pier lined with seafood restaurants. Coastal nirvana.

John Green

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

Oliver Goldsmith

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Ken Jennings

One guy had this can't-miss idea to go dig up old coins at the site of former disused government mints, and he just needed a bit of money to get started ... some guy had an idea for an indoor amusement park.

Lord Shaftesbury

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

William Shatner

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Jonathan Raban

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Henry Ford

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Larry Wall

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

Kenny Smith

Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

Bible Bible

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons

Lois Perrin

From the outside, it looks fine. It's strikingly gorgeous. But that's what is deceiving about it.

George Herbert

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Ignatius of Antioch

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.