Fun Quotes
Funny how the new things are the old things.Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.Quentin Crisp
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended - Not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.Barber B. Conable, J
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
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.Amelia Earhart
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
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.Tom Robbins
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
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy Davenport
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.Child Age 13
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
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
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.Albert Schweitze
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Mille
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.Jean Baudrillard
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.A. J. Liebling
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
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
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
If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!Dr. Seuss
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.Andrew A. Rooney
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.Frank Herbert
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
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Jim Rohn
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it.John Anthony Ciardi
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.Doug Larson
Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.Richard Royste
