Fun Quotes
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.Lester R Bittel
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.Amelia Earhart
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
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes".
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
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
I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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 saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.Yasutani Roshi
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
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 body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
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
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
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
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
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.Thomas Hardy
The vice - President of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.Fred Allen
The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.Jon Kabit - Zinn
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
A functioning police state needs no police.William S. Burroughs
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.George Bernard Shaw
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.Albert Schweitze
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
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
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co - Dependent.Berton Averre
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 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
