Fun Quotes
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.Bernard De Voto
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
Are we having fun yet.Carol Burnett
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
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
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
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 evolution of consciousness culminates in an all - Inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.Phiroz Mehta
Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.Doug Hall
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.Mark Twain
The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.Jack London
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.Doug Larson
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 best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.Hermann Hesse
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes".
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.Thomas Dewa
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince".
If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.Katherine Hepburn
Funny is an attitude.Flip Wilson
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.F. J. Raymond
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
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.John C. Dvorak
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.Max Eastman
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)
I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.Child Age 13
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.George Gurdjieff
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
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
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.Katherine Hepburn
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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 Fitzgerald
