| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 11bb4b9 | America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death. | amusement entertainment excess | John Piper | |
| baa450f | ...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. | amusement | Edith Wharton |