Fun Quotes
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince".
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
Funny how the new things are the old things.Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)
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
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Funny - Peculiar or funny - Ha - Ha.Ian Hay
Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.Sidney Madwed
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.Quentin Crisp
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.Sir Thomas Beecham
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.W. Somerset Maugham
The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all - Inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.Phiroz Mehta
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
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
Fun has a sacred dimension.Adriana Diaz
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.A. J. Liebling
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.Katharine Hepburn
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
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.Jack Nicklaus
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
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.Andrew A. Rooney
I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.Child Age 13
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Mille
To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.Katharine Graham
If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!Dr. Seuss
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
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
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.F. J. Raymond