Fun Quotes
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.Oscar Ameringe
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
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
Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.Charles De Gaulle
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy Davenport
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
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.
If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.Barbara Colorose
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
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co - Dependent.Berton Averre
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.Katherine Hepburn
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
Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.Jim We
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Fun has a sacred dimension.Adriana Diaz
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
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.Katharine Graham
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.Jack Nicklaus
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
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
Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.Richard Royste
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Jim Rohn
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 most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own true nature might never be known.David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
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
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
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
