Fun Quotes
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy Davenport
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
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.Lionel Richie
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince".
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.A. J. Liebling
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.Author Unknown
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Mille
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.Annie Gottlie
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.Norman Maile
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.Sidney Madwed
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.Dr. Seuss
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.George Bernard Shaw
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.Thomas Hardy
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.Katharine Graham
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
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.Henry Fielding
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.Tom Robbins
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.W. Somerset Maugham
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.Max Eastman
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.Ferdinand Foch
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.Jesse Louis Jackson
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.Peter Ustinov
The human mind is our fundamental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
