Winston Churchill - Charles Dickens - Sydney Smith - Coco Chanel - Aristotle - Oscar Wilde - John Lydon - Bill Hicks - Queen Victoria - Invasion of the Bee Girls 1973 -
It is my belief you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing. Winston Churchill
People mutht be amuthed. They can’t be alwayth a learning, nor yet they can’t be alwayth a working, they an’t made for it. Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Mr Sleary
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion. Sydney Smith
You live but once: you might as well be amusing. Coco Chanel
Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves ... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. Aristotle
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. Oscar Wilde
One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
I’m not here for your amusement. You’re here for mine. John Lydon
The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: ‘Is this real, or is this just a ride?’ And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, ‘Hey, don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.’ And we kill those people. Bill Hicks
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. Queen Victoria
We have to find ways to amuse ourselves. We never really get a chance to get down to LA. There’s a lot of sex games on go, wife-swapping and a lot of related nonsense. Scientists really aren’t any different from humankind. Just more inventive, that’s all. Invasion of the Bee Girls 1973 starring William Smith & Anitra Ford & Victoria Vetri & Cliff Osmond & Wright Knight & Ben Hammer & Anna Aries & Andre Philippe & Sid Kaiser & Katie A Saylor & William Keller & Beverly Powers et al, director Denis Sanders, bird in canteen