Fun Quotes
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy
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
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
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 whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
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
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Mille
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.Doug Larson
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
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
Funny is an attitude.Flip Wilson
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
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
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it.John Anthony Ciardi
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
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co - Dependent.Berton Averre
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy Davenport
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
Form follows function.Louis Henri Sullivan
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.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.Mother Theresa
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.Dave Barry
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
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
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
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended - Not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.Barber B. Conable, J
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.Johann Huizinga
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 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
