Fun Quotes
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
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
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
A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - And neither can stop the march of events.Robert A. Heinlein
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
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
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
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 test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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 Fitzgerald
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.Tom Robbins
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
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.Hermann Hesse
Fun has a sacred dimension.Adriana Diaz
Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.Bernard De Voto
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
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
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.Aldous Huxley
Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....John L. Jackley, New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15.
In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own true nature might never be known.David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.Thomas Hardy
Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.Unknown
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.Lewis Thomas
Funny - Peculiar or funny - Ha - Ha.Ian Hay
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.Jack London
He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.Ogden Nash
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.Heinrich Heine
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.Dave Barry
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.W. Edward Brown
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
