Edward Young Quotes

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.

It is fun to have fun.

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

If it ain't fun don't do it.

Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Fun stands for finally understnding nothing. And that's what's fun about fun, you don't have to get it.

I have as much fun as anybody I know.

I love rollercoasters, thrill-seeking, all of that is fun.

It isn't about love," Vee said. "It's about fun.

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.