Fun Quotes
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.Nathan M. Pusey
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.Ferdinand Foch
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
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.Donald G. Smith
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.Joe Schwartz
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High - Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - If totally different in form - From all the romantic architecture of the past.Dan Cruickshank
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Jim Rohn
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
Form follows function.Louis Henri Sullivan
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.Katherine Hepburn
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.Sigmund Freud
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy Davenport
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Mille
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
He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.Ogden Nash
The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.Jack London
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
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.Heinrich Heine
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
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
Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.Jim We
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.Margaret Fairless Barbe
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
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)
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
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
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 human mind is our fundamental resource.John Fitzgerald 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
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.Aldous Huxley
