Fun Quotes

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

Child Age 13

If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

Barbara Colorose

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

Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004

Funny - Peculiar or funny - Ha - Ha.

Ian Hay

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

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)

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

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

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

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feathe

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co - Dependent.

Berton Averre

How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain

Funny how the new things are the old things.

Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

William Hamilton

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Sir Thomas Beecham

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nade

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.

Jim We

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 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

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

Doug Larson

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 fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

Thomas Hardy

One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

Sigmund Freud

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

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

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart

Girls just want to have funds.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all - Inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.

Phiroz Mehta

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain

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.

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Oscar Ameringe

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

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.

Jack Nicklaus

Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.

Quentin Crisp