Fun Quotes

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.

Mark Twain

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

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

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.

Ogden Nash

The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.

W. Edward Brown

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain

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

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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)

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr. Seuss

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

Dennis Mille

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Norman Maile

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.

Robin Tyle

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