Fun Quotes
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
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
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.George Bernard Shaw
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
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
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co - Dependent.Berton Averre
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.Yasutani Roshi
Funny - Peculiar or funny - Ha - Ha.Ian Hay
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all - Inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.Phiroz Mehta
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
Funny how the new things are the old things.Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)
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".
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
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.Katharine Hepburn
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.Frank Herbert
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.W. Edward Brown
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
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
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
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
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
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 body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
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
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.Sigmund Freud
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.
