Fun Quotes
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.Ferdinand Foch
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.Max Eastman
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Mille
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
The vice - President of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.Fred Allen
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended - Not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.Barber B. Conable, J
Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.Bernard De Voto
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.Katharine Graham
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.Katherine Hepburn
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?Katharine Graham
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.Joe Schwartz
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.A. J. Liebling
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.Lewis Thomas
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.Ernest Hemingway
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.Michael Pritchard
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.Georges Clemenceau
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it.John Anthony Ciardi
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.F. J. Raymond
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.Johann Huizinga
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.Mark Twain
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
