Fun Quotes
Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle
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
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.Andrew A. Rooney
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
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
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
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 whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Funny is an attitude.Flip Wilson
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy Davenport
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.Georges Clemenceau
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.Peter Ustinov
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.Author Unknown
The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.Henry J. Tillman
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.George Santayana
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.Carl Jung
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
Minds are like parachutes... they only function when they are open.Thomas Dewa
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
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.Jerry Seinfeld
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
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.Doug Larson
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.Amelia Earhart
The human mind is our fundamental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.Mark Twain
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)
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
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
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 start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.Ralph Nade
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
