182 Quotations with Muse.
- 41. Queen Victoria: A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

- 42. Edmond and Jules De Goncourt: A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in ...

- 43. Logan Pearsall Smith: A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our ...

- 44. Henry David Thoreau: A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called th ...

- 45. Benjamin Disraeli: Amusement to an observing mind is study.

- 46. Sir William Watson: And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to A ...

- 47. Robert Wieder: Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative e ...

- 48. Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is ...

- 49. Jonathan Miller: Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Lauren ...

- 50. Alfred E. Smith: Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can ...

- 51. Helen Gurley Brown: Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking -- can.

- 52. David Garrick: Cards were at first for benefits designed: sent to amuse, not to enslave the min ...

- 53. Karl Marx: Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and polic ...

- 54. Samuel Johnson: Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady persev ...

- 55. Plato: Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by wh ...

- 56. Eliza Farnham: Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace l ...

- 57. Lionel Trilling: Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. Th ...

- 58. Henry Brooks Adams: Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, ...

- 59. Susan Sontag: Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, gra ...

- 60. Samuel Johnson: Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can ...

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