Fun Quotes
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it.John Anthony Ciardi
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 funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.Jon Kabit - Zinn
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.Lester R Bittel
He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.Ogden Nash
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.Lionel Richie
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
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
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.Margaret Lowenfeld
Form follows function.Louis Henri Sullivan
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
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)
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.Albert Camus
Fun has a sacred dimension.Adriana Diaz
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
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
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
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.Ralph Nade
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.Oscar Ameringe
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.Sigmund Freud
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
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
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
The human mind is our fundamental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
Girls just want to have funds.Adrienne E. Gusoff
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
