Fun Quotes

Funny how the new things are the old things.

Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)

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

Frank Herbert

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 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

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

Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.

Richard Royste

Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.

Eloise Salholz

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

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

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

A. J. Liebling

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

Ralph Nade

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

William Faulkne

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Funny - Peculiar or funny - Ha - Ha.

Ian Hay

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Dave Barry

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

Lester R Bittel

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse

If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!

Dr. Seuss

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

Amelia Earhart

We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.

Annie Gottlie

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

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Pete Holiday