Fun Quotes
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.
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
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 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
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston Churchill
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.Dwight D Eisenhowe
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.George Bernard Shaw
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.Amelia Earhart
Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.Richard Royste
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
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
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High - Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - If totally different in form - From all the romantic architecture of the past.Dan Cruickshank
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
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
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 function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.Frank Herbert
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.John C. Dvorak
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy
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
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".
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.Henry Fielding
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.Lester R Bittel
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
Funny how the new things are the old things.Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.Jack Nicklaus
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.David Brinkley
The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all - Inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.Phiroz Mehta
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.Doug Hall
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.Dr. Seuss
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.Dave Barry
