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 . . . AMUSEMENT see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see. --Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855—1896) American poet, novelist, and editor. _One, Two, Three_ The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may better return to thought, and to itself. --Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 B.C.— c. 50 A.D.) The versifier of Aesop's Fables in Latin. There is now a vast crowd that is a permanent audience waiting to be amused, cash customers screaming for their money's worth, all fixed in a consumer's attitude. They look on at more and more, and join in less and less. --J.B. [John Boynton] Priestley (1894—1984) English novelist, playwright and critic. _Thoughts in the Wilderness_ [1957], "The Writer in a Changing Society" The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. --Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723—1792) English painter. ----- disport [dis-PORT], intransitive verb: To amuse oneself in light or lively manner; to frolic. transitive verb: 1. To divert or amuse. 2. To display. Ex.: If you confine the kids' drinking to the college area, they will disport there and lessen the problem of the drunken car ride coming back from the out-of-town bar. --William F. Buckley Jr., "Let's Drink to It," National Review, February 27, 2001 droll (adjective) ['drol] Quaintly amusing, mischievously facetious, exhibiting the qualities of a droll.  . . see: "EMPIRE" see: "GOVERNMENT" see: "LAW" see: "MOB" see: "REVOLUTION" see: "VIOLENCE" Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. --Louis Brandeis (1856—1941) American lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916—1939]. Dissent in "Olmstead v. United States" [1928]. In a state of anarchy power is the measure of right. --Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (39—65) Roman poet and republican patriot. Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. --John Milton (1608—1674) English poet. . . see also: "GENEALOGY" People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. --Edmund Burke (1729—1797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790], v. III It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. --William Congreve (1670—1729) English dramatist. Letter to Dennis [1695], in John C. Hodges {ed.} _William Congreve: Letters and Documents_ [1964]. If you could see your ancestors, all standing in a row, there might be some among them whom you wouldn't care to know. But there's another matter, which requires a different view; if you could see your ancestors, would they be proud of you? --Rufus Craig This sad little lizard told me that he was a Brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is in short supply. --Robert Heinlein (1907—1988) American science-fiction writer. _The Notebooks of Lazarus Long_ [1978] Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease. --Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937) American journalist and author. It is said that there were some respected men among my ancestors, too, but my father paid little attention to that. He judged each man by himself and not by his ancestors. --Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (1908—1988) American author of Western fiction. _Jubal Sackett_ [1985] She descended from a long line her mother listened to. --Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Louise Hovick] (1914—1970) American striptease artist. It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. --Horace Mann (1796—1859) American educator. With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am? --Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950) American poet. "A Few Figs from Thistles" [1920] The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry, is like the potato - the best part under ground. --Sir Thomas Overbury (1581?—1613) English poet and essayist. It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?—119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. --Jonas Edward Salk (1914—1995) American physician and medical reseacher who developed the vaccine for polio. He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Hercules Furens_ It is only shallow-minded pretenders who either make distinguished origin a matter of personal merit, or obscure origin a matter of personal reproach. Taunt and scoffing at the humble condition of early life affect nobody in America but those who are foolish enough to indulge in them, and they are generally sufficiently punished by the published rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. --Daniel Webster (1782—1852) American orator and politician. end page | ABILITY - ABUSE | ACADEMY AWARDS - ACCUSTOMED | ACHIEVEMENT - ACQUAINTANCE | ACTIONS | ACTORS / ACTING | ACTUARIES - ADVERSARIES | ADVERSITY - ADVERTISING | ADVICE | AFFAIRS - AFGHANISTAN | AGE | AGNOSTICS - AIRPLANES | ALCOHOL | ALIBI - AMBITION | AMERICA PAGE 1 (A-M) | AMERICA PAGE 2 (N-Z) | AMERICANS | AMERICAN INDIANS | AMERICAN REVOLUTION | AMUSEMENT - ANCESTORS | ANGER | ANIMAL RIGHTS & ANIMALS | ANIMOSITIES - APATHY | APOLOGY & APPEARANCE | APPEASEMENT | APPLAUSE - APRIL | ARCHAEOLOGISTS - ARCHITECTURE | ARGUMENT | ARISTOCRACY - ART | ASHAMED - ASTROLOGY | ATHEISM | ATOM BOMB - ATTRACTION | AUSTRALIA | AUTHORITY - AUTOMOBILES | AUTUMN - AWARENESS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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