Fun Quotes

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

Jerry Seinfeld

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Commage

The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Henry J. Tillman

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

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.

Jack London

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.

Charles De Gaulle

Fun has a sacred dimension.

Adriana Diaz

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

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles Schwa

Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.

Quentin Crisp

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

David Ogilvie

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

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

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

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Unknown

Girls just want to have funds.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince".

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

Funny how the new things are the old things.

Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy Davenport

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

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

Dennis Mille

The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all - Inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.

Phiroz Mehta