Fun Quotes
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.Lester R Bittel
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.Sigmund Freud
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.Jack London
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 fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.Heinrich Heine
Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.Katherine Hepburn
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.Elaine Agathe
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
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?Katharine Graham
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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.
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
A functioning police state needs no police.William S. Burroughs
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.W. Somerset Maugham
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
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
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
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
Fun has a sacred dimension.Adriana Diaz
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.Katharine Graham
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Are we having fun yet.Carol Burnett
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
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.Peter Ustinov
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
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
