Fun Quotes

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

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.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it.

John Anthony Ciardi

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)

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

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

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

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

Lin Yutang

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

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

Jerry Seinfeld

Are we having fun yet.

Carol Burnett

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

F. J. Raymond

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.

Robin Tyle

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.

W, Willard Wirtz

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Yasutani Roshi

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.

Raymond Loewy

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

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 best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

David Ogilvie

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 function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Frank Herbert

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld

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

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

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurbe

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 leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

Elaine Agathe

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell