Fun Quotes
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.W. Edward Brown
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.Tom Robbins
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.Lester R Bittel
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.Katherine Hepburn
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
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 greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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 look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.Margaret Fairless Barbe
I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.Albert Schweitze
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.William Hamilton
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.George Bernard Shaw
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
In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own true nature might never be known.David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.Dr. Seuss
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.Doug Larson
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.Dave Barry
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Mille
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Jim Rohn
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
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
