Fun Quotes
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)
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.Lester R Bittel
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
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
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.
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.Albert Camus
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.Katharine Hepburn
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
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
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.Katharine Graham
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.Annie Gottlie
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.W. Somerset Maugham
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!Dr. Seuss
He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.Ogden Nash
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
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
Funny how the new things are the old things.Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)
Are we having fun yet.Carol Burnett
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.Georges Clemenceau
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
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
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
Fun has a sacred dimension.Adriana Diaz
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.Margaret Lowenfeld
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.Dave Barry
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
A functioning police state needs no police.William S. Burroughs
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
A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - And neither can stop the march of events.Robert A. Heinlein
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.Yasutani Roshi
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
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
