Fun Quotes
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
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
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.W, Willard Wirtz
Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.Sidney Madwed
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
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
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
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
The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president
The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.Jon Kabit - Zinn
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
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.Frank Herbert
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
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
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
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.Jack Nicklaus
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
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.Andrew A. Rooney
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
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
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
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.Michael Pritchard
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
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
Funny how the new things are the old things.Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.Katharine Graham
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes".
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
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 does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.Joe Namath
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
