Amuse
To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.
To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
To muse; to mediate.
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Amuse Quotations
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
Dr. Seuss
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh
I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
Hillary Clinton
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
Donald Knuth
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Arthur Erickson
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
George Henry Lewes
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Edgar Watson Howe
Small things amuse small minds.
Doris Lessing
Amuse Translations
amuse in Afrikaans is amuseer
amuse in Dutch is opvrolijken, amuseren, onderhouden
amuse in Finnish is huvittaa
amuse in French is amuser, amusez, amusons, amusent
amuse in Italian is divertire
amuse in Portuguese is diverta
amuse in Spanish is divertir
amuse in Swedish is roa
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