Fun Quotes
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
Funny is an attitude.Flip Wilson
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.Albert Schweitze
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
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
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.Dave Barry
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy
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
Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.Richard Royste
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.Nathan M. Pusey
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
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Mille
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
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.Joe Namath
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it.John Anthony Ciardi
A three - Year - Old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty - Six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.Bill Vaughan
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
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
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
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
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
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.Pete Holiday
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.George Gurdjieff
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.Eloise Salholz
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
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
Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.Jim We
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
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
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
