Fun Quotes
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?Katharine Graham
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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 function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.F. J. Raymond
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
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
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
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
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
Form follows function.Louis Henri Sullivan
A functioning police state needs no police.William S. Burroughs
If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!Dr. Seuss
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.Mary Wilson Little
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
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
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.Lester R Bittel
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".
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
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
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.Andrew A. Rooney
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it.John Anthony Ciardi
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Girls just want to have funds.Adrienne E. Gusoff
Are we having fun yet.Carol Burnett
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
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
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.John C. Dvorak
Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.Thomas Dewa
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.Frank Herbert
Funny how the new things are the old things.Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)
