Fun Quotes
The proper function of man is to live - Not to exist.Jack London
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
Funny is an attitude.Flip Wilson
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilde
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
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.Jim Rohn
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.Quentin Crisp
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
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 best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.Mark Twain
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
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
Funny how the new things are the old things.Rudyard Kipling, With the Night Mail (1909)
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.Dave Barry
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.Katherine Hepburn
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
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.Mother Theresa
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
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
Engineers are all basically high - Functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
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
Are we having fun yet.Carol Burnett
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
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
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
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.Katharine Hepburn
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 funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.Jon Kabit - Zinn
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.Dr. Seuss
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
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
